My visits to The Queen’s Club aren’t all about playing real tennis and winning tournaments/trophies myself.
Gosh no.
Janie and I decided to spend a day watching the grass court tournament at Queen’s this year, as well as several days at other less high-falutin’ tournaments such as Eastbourne and Wimbledon (see subsequent Ogblogs for those).
Being Wednesday, we got to see four of the Round Of 16 matches. We saw:
- Lorenzo Musetti beat Ben Shelton;
- Cameron Norrie beat Jordan Thompson;
- Holger Rune beat Ryan Peniston;
- Sebastian Korda beat Frances Tiafoe.
Lots of players we like and/or wanted to see on that list, so we were very pleased with our schedule for the day.
We also strolled the campus a fair bit, although the place was very crowded compared with our previous visit to see lawners during the socially-distanced summer of 2021:
Returning to 2023, we took loads of photographs, more of players we weren’t going to see practicing on practice courts than pictures of our own matches.
Here’s a sample of them, ahead of a link which will allow you to skim the whole lot:
We had a very enjoyable day, although I must say that the Queen’s tournament feels a bit more corporate, less fun & friendly, each time we go there now.
Here and below a link to all of our photos from that day.
