Ball kids at Roland GarrosI am somewhat of a tennis fan. I used to play at tennis, I never got good enough to say I actually could play tennis, just play at it. One of my Christmas gifts a few years back was tickets to the U. S. Open tennis tournament in New York City. I didn't realize until after I arrived that this was the second week of the French Open. It would have been way cool to go.
Friday afternoon, after I dismissed class, I took the number 10 line out to Roland Garros stadium with the hopes of a grounds pass, something we did at the U.S. Open, a ticket that gets you the run of the place, access to the outer courts and practice courts but no seat in the large stadium. Sadly I found that they didn't have such a thing. If I had been paying attention before I left I could have gone out Sunday night, the day I arrived. Up thru that night they had "evening visitor" tickets. Like the U. S. Tennis Center's grounds pass but only after 5pm and only the first week of the tournament.
I walked all around the periphery of the Roland Garros complex. The only spot I could see anything other than the back side of stuff was this view of the practice courts with the off duty ball kids banging the ball around.
I didn't even manage to buy a t-shirt. Even the gift shop is inside the complex.
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