Saturday, October 22, 2011

Pete Sampras comes to town!

Marcie and I have loved watching Pete Sampras play tennis over the past 20 years.  Last week he and 3 other "oldies", John McEnroe, Jim Courier, and Michael Chang, played a tournament at the Key Arena in Seattle.  We went and had an absolute blast.  There were two semi-final matches won by Chang and Sampras and then they played for the "Seattle" title which Sampras won.  They move a little slower but it was so great to be there.  I'm sure they staged it this way but there was a questionable call that Mr. McEnroe was able to argue a bit with the umpire over which was quite fun.  They made jokes with each other and once Pete even gave his racket to the ball boy who won a point off McEnroe!  It was a delightful evening and a dream come true for Marcie T!  We had great seats at about the 50 yard line - I guess better said would be right at the net line!  Here's a few photos including the beautiful moon as we were leaving:

2 comments:

Kristine and Philip said...

Wow! What a great time you both had watching Sampras, McEnroe and Chang. Wish we could have been there with you. Maybe they'll come back some day...

Megan and Jeremy said...

Better than Wimbledon eh?