A day at the tennis

We often head down to Melbourne at this time of year to watch some matches.
I DID mean to check the entry conditions - like whether I could take in my camera. I NOW know that telephoto camera lenses with a focal length capacity greater than 200mm are not allowed. Luckily as my bag was inspected at the gate I had my Tamron 28-75 on the camera, yet later I saw dozens of other people with 300 zoom lenses on their cameras. My point and shoot has a 10x zoom anyhow -  it is obviously very difficult to effectively police these things, but the very big lenses are definitely for the professionals!

The best place for up-close photos in on the outside courts. I got to watch Roddick practicing.

I'm not sure if we're getting out of touch or whether it's just that are just more Eastern European players these days but I don't seem to know many of the players. We watched Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of RUS  vs Iveta Benesova (below) of CZE, a very impressive game and I enjoyed taking photos regardless!

Zoe had a friend to keep her company.

So one way or another we all kept ourselves entertained!