The Williams travelled to Melbourne for the Australian Open and other experiences.
First impression on arrival is that it is freezing at 14 degrees, feels like 10, this afternoon 33 degrees and high humidity for the last few weeks in Queensland.
Great jobh Williams, after enjoying our coffee at Pelligrinis we walked out without paying. I nice customer chased after us to tell us. Fran went back in to pay, but how mortifying
Victoria markets was nice, similar to the Adelaide markets but not quite as big.
The focus for the day was the Mystery Picnic which had us solving clues to know where to go to collect ingredients for the picnic at the end of the the great thing about this was that it included little jaunts to interesting spots along the way. Lots of walking and lots of thinking to solve the puzzles.
The culmination was a picnic on the grass amongst the water fowl in Treasury Gardens.
We were so exhausted from the mystery picnic chase around, and the late night arrival, that we decided to head back to the hotel from an afternoon snooze before heading over to the tennis.
Tennis - Margaret Court Arena
We had tickets for the evening session from 7pm with two matches scheduled, the first was a women’s match between a young 20 year old Russian, Maria Timofeeva, and a Slightly more experienced Brazilian, Beatriz Haddad Maia, who was seeded 10. The game started off looking like being a rout by Haddad when she easily went 3-0 up in the first set, however, Maria pulled herself together and, supported loudly by the crowd, proceeded to dominate and pull off a straight sets win. We might have seen the emergence of a new star!
The men's game was a smash-bang affair but still entertaining. Andrey Rublev pulled a straight sets win over Sebastian Korda, the son of Petr Korda. It turns out Sebastian won the boys Aus open in 2018, his dad won the mens in 98, and his sisters have won the LGPA gold open and masters in golf respectively, pretty impressive!