June 26, 2004

The Championships, Wimbledon 2004 + Delta Goodrem

Making the most of our location, Sarah and I decided a day out at Wimbledon would be a fantastic reason to take a day off work. The weather this week has been horrendous to say the least for Wimbledon. Luckily however we managed to select a day that was warm and sunny, and spent all day friday at the All England Lawn Tennis Club. After gaining entry to the ground and relieving ourselves after a long 4 hour queue to get in, we bought a program, got some refreshments and headed straight to court 13, the location for the upcoming Mark Philippoussis game. We sat through a womens singles game (England vs. Spain) in the lead up to the match we wanted to see, and it was worth it. We had seats 3 rows from the front, no more than 5 meters from the court.

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Timetable
0500: Wake up.
0600: leave for Southfields tube station.
0645: Arrive and join first queue.
0715: Get itchy feet from waiting.
1045: Pass through the gates.
1330: Watch Mark Philippoussis Match.
1430: Realise Delta Goodrem is in crowd.
1500: Finally give in to temptation and take photos of Delta
1630: Spend some time on Henman hill watching Rusedski game.
1900: Decide we are burnt enough and head home
The Mark Philippoussis game was absolutely fantastic. As always he took a set to warm up (ie, he lost the first set), but once he locked onto his form he was absolutely fantastic and never looked like losing the match. About half way through the match we noticed that the gorgeous absolutely fantastic Delta Goodrem was in the crowd. Temptation got the better of both Sarah and I and we took some photo's of her enjoying her boyfriend's (Mark Philippoussis, yes I think she got the wrong Mark too ;) ) success. Talk about distractions. After the match finished she hung around and posed for some photos with fans. As always Sarah and I were both too shy to approach her and ask for a photo. What a great girl.

After this we walked around the club grounds for a while, peeking in on different matches and finally found ourselves on Henman hill, watching Greg Rusedski play on the big screen. (The match was being played on Show Court 1, we didnt have tickets for that court). The rest of the day was spent watching some doubles matches, before we finally decided we were burnt and tired enough to go home, at about 7pm.

For a pictoral view of the day visit the photo gallery.

Posted by Mark at June 26, 2004 08:37 PM
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