{"id":38413,"date":"2013-09-06T23:02:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T23:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=38413"},"modified":"2014-02-01T00:26:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T00:26:50","slug":"li-na-vs-serena-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=38413","title":{"rendered":"Li Na vs Serena, II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Li Na is facing off Serena in the 2013 US Open semi final. Their last grand slam encounter was also on the center court, Wimbledon 2010, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FYHbAVvR0Ms\">on youtube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FYHbAVvR0Ms\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My daughter turned 16 that summer and she wanted to have her Sweet 16 at Wimbledon. So London it was. We first took in another Les Miserables at Her Majesty\u2019s Theatre to celebrated my son&#8217;s birthday. Yes, I&#8217;ve many children and many birthdays during the summer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/139912-Nick-Jonas-to-Make-West-End-Debut-as-Marius-in-Les-Misrables\">Nick Jonas<\/a> played the roll of Marius. Even before the show started, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phantomoftheopera.com\/modules\/newbb\/viewtopic.php?topic_id=13478\">many female and few male fans<\/a> (about 30 or so) gathered at the back entrance in hope to catch a glimpse of the young singer\/actor. I was sure the scene would mushroom after the show.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38414\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38414\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-38414\" alt=\"Heading to Richmond\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image3-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heading to Richmond<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wimbledon tickets are notoriously difficult to get, they even run the lottery so I didn&#8217;t bother with it in advance. I took a chance which I thought was good, and as it turned out, it&#8217;s more than good.<br \/>\nThe London Underground (commonly called Tube) green line is the Wimbledon line, should get off\u00a0at Southfields (two stops before Wimbledon Station), then it&#8217;s a 10 minutes walk to the tennis complex known as the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, on a very residential street. The bus route 493 goes there too (see the insert at left). Of course there are taxis and limos and parking lots.<\/p>\n<p>The area of Wimbledon is about 9 miles southwest of Trafalgar Square in London. The biggest draw is the annual tennis championship. The lesser known are the New Wimbledon Theatre and the huge open space (1,100 acres) Wimbledon Common.<br \/>\nGetting off the Tube at Southfields Underground Station we were greeted by crowds as well as many policemen who tried to keep the crowds in check, and direct the road-retards like me. The junction at the station, to the east side of the Wimbledon Park Road is Replingham Road which has many stores and coffee shops, and to the west is Augustus Road. We walked south on the Wimbledon Park Road. Shops dotted the first couple of blocks then became all houses and apartments. Although the footpath is narrow but it was very pleasant to walk, especially on the way to the championship. In the late afternoon or evening when everyone was leaving, the path on either side was overwhelmed.<br \/>\nThe championship was well organized. Upon entering the complex, for those without a ticket, we were handed a numbered ticket to wait on the long line to buy a ticket. We had good time chatting with our neighbors. Along the way, there were loud speakers broadcasting the live actions we hoped to see. Two spots before us was a groups of young women having their girls day out. They completed the fun with luxurious lunch spread with champagne and caviar. A few spots behind us was a family whose three young sons displayed their acrobatic ability on the grass to entertain us. To avoid all day time line of course you can camp there over night with your own sleep bag or tent, and party. It took us three hours to reach the ticket booth. They didn&#8217;t take credit card, cash only. After 5 pm each day, the tickets sell at a reduced rate.<br \/>\nExquisite was the word came to mind when we finally hit the ground, inside of the gate. It was crowded but not massive.<br \/>\nThe following day we went before noon, the line was drastically short, about an hour long. On the third day which was the ladies quarter final, we went immediately after breakfast, there was no line to queue, straight to the ticket booth. The young women asked us,<br \/>\n&#8220;What kind of ticket would you like?&#8221;<br \/>\nI looked at my daughter, wanting to know if she had a preference.<br \/>\nBefore she replied, the young woman offered,<br \/>\n&#8220;Would you like the Centre Court?&#8221;<br \/>\nOur eyes lights up. Her birthday present wrapped neatly and served on a silver plate.<br \/>\n&#8220;Of course.&#8221;<br \/>\nMy wallet was \u00a3158 lighter but our seats were marvelous. The Centre Court is much smaller (15,000 seating capacity) than the monstrous Arthur Ashe (23,200 &#8211; at the top of the stadium, I wondered that if the spectators are in the airplanes from La Guardia airport.) Following Vera Zvonareva defeat Kim Clijsters (3-6 6-4 6-2) was Serena vs Li Na. The American disposed Sister Na 7-5, 6-3. The scores might suggest a close match but in fact Serena won relatively easy. After kiss off, they spoke under the chair empire for a prolonged time.<br \/>\nIt was my first time watching Li played. 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Their last grand slam encounter was also on the center court, Wimbledon 2010, on youtube. My daughter turned 16 that summer and she wanted to have her Sweet 16 at Wimbledon. So London it was. We first took in another Les Miserables [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,46],"tags":[50,51],"class_list":["post-38413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","category-tennis-2","tag-li-na","tag-serena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}