[Via]

Originally Posted by Cindy19

I made a big report last year.

Hey you haven't answered the question, would you like to be here? and i am sure shanghai is nicer. sorry for the Peking fans, i just say the truth.

TMC time last year i was sick as hell

but this year i'll make sure to read your report

[Luna]

Originally Posted by Via

hey luna i'm sorry somehow i had missed you totally in bj !!! i didn't go that much after all, only the first saturday, then tues (atp) (we were stuck in traffic at 7pm on monday! so we gave up going lol) and wed (wta) that's all.

i think you're exactly right about why bodyguards are needed in bj... not because anyone looks like a terrorist...

i'm sad for you that jc hadn't played in bj. i guess i could sit back and relax, and watch people running after other players, because my fav wasn't there either!!! lol

yes i knew it was shangri-la, it's pretty obvious as they were a sponsor! but i was told that there were a few shangri-la's in bj. yeah it's true it's boring waiting around hotels so the only player i had waited for was my fav, and only at the hotel door one year

so... where are your pics???

Next time ,we should make an appiontment lest we miss each other.
You went on wed(wta),I admire you so much!Because I had to go back to my city on tues night,I missed Vaidisova's first appearance ,and how she can lose that.
How grateful I only know one shangri-la and which is happen to the one players lived!I waited for Vaidisova in hotel twice this year,that made me missing her practice session on monday,I will never do the same thing unless I know the excatly time my fav is on hotel...
I am too lazy to upload my pics,I will do that as soon as possible.

[Via]

Originally Posted by Luna

Next time ,we should make an appiontment lest we miss each other.
You went on wed(wta),I admire you so much!Because I had to go back to my city on tues night,I missed Vaidisova's first appearance ,and how she can lose that.
How grateful I only know one shangri-la and which is happen to the one players lived!I waited for Vaidisova in hotel twice this year,that made me missing her practice session on monday,I will never do the same thing unless I know the excatly time my fav is on hotel...
I am too lazy to upload my pics,I will do that as soon as possible.

i think players should simply publicise their daily schedules on their website or something saves us time going to wrong places!

that reminds me of something... fans should work in teams. at aus open in 2005 i went with some other fans (mtf members) we text each other messages every now and then, so we were very efficient tracking down players and their whereabouts

so *which* shangri-la? the tourney's over now, do tell

[Cindy19]

Originally Posted by Luna

I took pics with Ancic,Baghdatis,Ljubicic,Srichaphan,Vaidisova,Kuzn etsova...almost every favorite players on court,including Mauresmo,I heared that she was escorted by 8 guards in WTA final day. She's so popular in BJ that's beyond my imagination.Waiting for player in hotel is too bored

Where is my man Luna??? I brought the Tennis Magazine today, and there is an article about him and also one about GGL.

[Cindy19]

Originally Posted by Via

TMC time last year i was sick as hell

but this year i'll make sure to read your report

Oh, i am sorry to hear that

this year you ll make sure to read my report, and next year you might be here and sit beside me

[Via]

Originally Posted by Cindy19

Oh, i am sorry to hear that

this year you ll make sure to read my report, and next year you might be here and sit beside me

what does that mean ???

shanghai final for me *fingers crossed*

[Cindy19]

Who knows?

you were in beijing, and who knows you might be in shanghai some day

[Cindy19]

Oh dear, thanks for your reps, but i am sorry that i can't rep you now.

[Fed-Express]

Xièxie. I was also there, these pictures are great, thanks a lot. It was really nice, except for the courts 1 and 2, they were really small and far away from the Center Court.

[Via]

the pics so far are ok, but there are better ones coming glad you've enjoyed them!

i like the outside courts... i always like outside courts actually, in every tournament, as long as there are chairs to sit on. bj's centre court is too high up imo, all the lower better seats are corporate boxes, not much fun for everyone else.

[Cindy19]

Do you have to pay for the outside courts?

i heard last year you had to, but don't know what about this year.

[CooCooCachoo]

Thanks

[Fed-Express]

Originally Posted by Via

the pics so far are ok, but there are better ones coming glad you've enjoyed them!

i like the outside courts... i always like outside courts actually, in every tournament, as long as there are chairs to sit on. bj's centre court is too high up imo, all the lower better seats are corporate boxes, not much fun for everyone else.

Yeah, I noticed that too, that was really strange. Never seen that before. Are so many ticket given to companies or party officials? It really sucked having to climb up 3 floors until you can take your seat.

[Via]

Originally Posted by Fed-Express

Yeah, I noticed that too, that was really strange. Never seen that before. Are so many ticket given to companies or party officials? It really sucked having to climb up 3 floors until you can take your seat.

finally.... someone agrees with me on that!!!

i've counted it and it's more like 5 floors (1st: toilet, 2nd: corporate, 3rd: stairs landing, 4th: balcony, 5th: ordinary seats entry... which is not on the highest level and depending on your seat you can still continue to ascend)

there's a great divide between the haves and have-nots and that's only my humble opinion

the (men's) final with its ticket prices was apparently sold out !!!

[Via]

Originally Posted by Cindy19

Do you have to pay for the outside courts?

i heard last year you had to, but don't know what about this year.

yup, that's called the ground pass