Well we had our first day working as an usher at the Pacific Life Open Tennis Tournament. The first two days are for qualifiers so no big names are playing but some are starting to so up on the women’s draw. They start first while the men start arriving on Wednesday. Admission is free so you get many people and there are always a few local competitors that bring out a crowd.
It was a warm day, sunning and about 80 degrees. We were assigned to court 2 and that meant we had one of the matches that drew a lot of local interest. Coco Vandeweghe, a 15 year old local girl was playing. She fits the image of what seems to be the latest woman tennis player, About 6 foot tall and blonde. She played a good match but lost in 3 sets. We started working at the end of the first set. I was given one of the gates to the chairs on the shady side so it was busy. Most of the chairs were full so you couldn’t let people in unless someone left. Of course there were plenty of seat in the bleachers on the sunny side of the court. That match lasted three hours and seventeen minutes so we were behind most of the other courts in getting our five matches for the day.
There was talk of moving the last match scheduled for the day to another court but as always the best laid plans to not always work. Our next match lasted 57 minutes and the two courts that looked like they would be open ran longer. Anyway, it meant that we were the last court to finish for the night at about 7:30. Today we will be working the late shift again. Even though we are not see top ranked players they are very good and most of the crowds are small so the job of usher is easy. For the last match. Marilyn and the three other people working the shady side of the bleachers had from zero to 10 people most of the time.
It was a warm day, sunning and about 80 degrees. We were assigned to court 2 and that meant we had one of the matches that drew a lot of local interest. Coco Vandeweghe, a 15 year old local girl was playing. She fits the image of what seems to be the latest woman tennis player, About 6 foot tall and blonde. She played a good match but lost in 3 sets. We started working at the end of the first set. I was given one of the gates to the chairs on the shady side so it was busy. Most of the chairs were full so you couldn’t let people in unless someone left. Of course there were plenty of seat in the bleachers on the sunny side of the court. That match lasted three hours and seventeen minutes so we were behind most of the other courts in getting our five matches for the day.
There was talk of moving the last match scheduled for the day to another court but as always the best laid plans to not always work. Our next match lasted 57 minutes and the two courts that looked like they would be open ran longer. Anyway, it meant that we were the last court to finish for the night at about 7:30. Today we will be working the late shift again. Even though we are not see top ranked players they are very good and most of the crowds are small so the job of usher is easy. For the last match. Marilyn and the three other people working the shady side of the bleachers had from zero to 10 people most of the time.
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