Please tell me someone here caught one of the racquets Roddick threw away tonight!!!

[kiwiconman]

Did anyone else see Andy Roddick throw away his three spare racquets to the crowd after his loss to Tipsarevic??

Would be awesome if someone here on these forums had caught them

[dantesinferno18]

I saw that I would give my left nut for one of those

[kevoT]

^^^^ me too!

[Meriko]

It makes me mad that the people who get the stuff pros throw in crowd are all corporate people who got tickets for free, when the real fans are in the higher part of the court

[p33ch33]

Originally Posted by Meriko

It makes me mad that the people who get the stuff pros throw in crowd are all corporate people who got tickets for free, when the real fans are in the higher part of the court

Very true.

[MAX PLY]

^^^Then work harder and make more money. It's far more attractive than petty envy.

[Seth]

Originally Posted by MAX PLY

^^^Then work harder and make more money. It's far more attractive than petty envy.

Very true.

[AM95]

i caught one !!!
































naw jk jk i wish.

[safe]

Picture???

[ollinger]

Sure, the fans down below get the racquets (including one of Djoker's tonight), but.....most of the crap signed balls get hit upstairs at the end of the match!!!!

[vsbabolat]

Originally Posted by ollinger

Sure, the fans down below get the racquets (including one of Djoker's tonight), but.....most of the crap signed balls get hit upstairs at the end of the match!!!!

You know I don't think Arthur Ashe Stadium is big enough. The USTA should have made it bigger so you get more fans in the upper decks so they can fight with each other more. The upper deck fans have to entertain themselves somehow cause you cant see anything that far away from the court.

Edit* The above post was sarcasm. Arthur Ashe stadium is too big and you cant see anything above the luxury boxes. The luxury boxes are only there to fatten the USTA's bank account. Ashe Stadium is the least fan friendly Tennis stadium I have ever been in!

[Pocky]

Originally Posted by ollinger

Sure, the fans down below get the racquets (including one of Djoker's tonight), but.....most of the crap signed balls get hit upstairs at the end of the match!!!!

Wouldn't you rather have a player's personal racquet that his sweat and mind goes to rather than a ball with a signature

[Pocky]

Originally Posted by vsbabolat

You know I don't think Arthur Ashe Stadium is big enough. The USTA should have made it bigger so you get more fans in the upper decks so they can fight with each other more. The upper deck fans have to entertain themselves somehow cause you cant see anything that far away from the court.

Arthur Ashe is already big enough, I cannot imagine watching tennis from the very last seat of the stadium, I don't think hitting sound is propagated to the very end

[vsbabolat]

Originally Posted by Pocky

Arthur Ashe is already big enough, I cannot imagine watching tennis from the very last seat of the stadium, I don't think hitting sound is propagated to the very end

I was being sarcastic. Arthur Ashe stadium is too big and you cant see anything above the luxury boxes. The luxury boxes are only there to fatten the USTA's bank account. Ashe Stadium is the least fan friendly Tennis stadium I have ever been in!

[LPShanet]

Originally Posted by vsbabolat

You know I don't think Arthur Ashe Stadium is big enough. The USTA should have made it bigger so you get more fans in the upper decks so they can fight with each other more. The upper deck fans have to entertain themselves somehow cause you cant see anything that far away from the court.

Edit* The above post was sarcasm. Arthur Ashe stadium is too big and you cant see anything above the luxury boxes. The luxury boxes are only there to fatten the USTA's bank account. Ashe Stadium is the least fan friendly Tennis stadium I have ever been in!

+1 for this. Never seen such a bad pro tennis stadium. Arthur Ashe Stadium is an abomination, and it's shameful how proud they are of it. It's like a slap in the face to fans, and the players don't like it much either...much better to have the fans close to the court where you can hear them and they can see you. You know it's bad when $100+ tickets have a poorer view of a match than watching it on TV.

In the end, it's bad for the sport, too, as television has to avoid showing the fact that the prime seats are half empty during all the early round matches, as many of the corporate types don't bother showing up for early round day sessions even though they've paid for them. And they don't let any of the real fans down from their high-altitude exile. They desperately need a system for getting those seats back in the hands (or butts) of actual live people who are attending the match. While they're at it, they might want to stop selling hundreds more grounds passes each year, just so they can state record attendance figures. It's now impossible to get a seat in a decent field court (or even Grandstand) match once it has started.

[Meriko]

Originally Posted by p33ch33

Very true.

No doubt about that, I'm just stating my opinon

[Meriko]

woops, that reply was ment for MAX PLY

[BobFL]

Originally Posted by MAX PLY

^^^Then work harder and make more money. It's far more attractive than petty envy.

Not harder but smarter. The richest people I know do not work hard at all

Well, all those corporate people can buy as many racquets as they would like but they just do not appreciate a good paintjob lol

[ollinger]

Ah, the angst of the underclass. Interesting how it's assumed the captains of industry in the courtside seats must know less about the game or equipment than the righteous proletariat.

[Gorecki]

Originally Posted by ollinger

Ah, the angst of the underclass. Interesting how it's assumed the captains of industry in the courtside seats must know less about the game or equipment than the righteous proletariat.

it's stated in the "the urban commie handbook"...