Chennai Open...Day 4

I already missed the first 3 days of the Chennai open thanks to my god damn anatomy internals...exam was over today and i had to go for the matches...went there straight from college...thankfully vikram and akshay bought me tickets...one of akshay's friends had come along too...if i remember right this is my 7th chennai (previously tata) (and gold flake before tata) open...anyway...i walked after the first set was over between Ivan ljubicic and Jiri Vanek...it was a pleasure to watch professional tennis live again after quite some time....Jiri Vanek has been here before... he's a pretty potential player...and Ivan is the top seeded guy this time...9th in the world...i had my camera with me...i have no idea why...but vikram and i took ONLY pictures of all the players serving...serving....and more serving...we were sittin in great seats right near the action...superb views.... i took so many pics and all of them came out ok....Ljubicic won the match eventually after playin pretty casually. Next up was Indian Rohan Bopanna vs Giles Muller....wat a boring match!!!! Giles muller was the guy who beat Roddick in the U.S open last year so we kinda knew wat to expect....he breezed over rohan in jus 2 sets....i have to admit though....Rohan Bopanna's improved a lot....but it wasn't of any use....in this match at least...Then came the lighter side of the tournament that takes place every year...the Mercedes remote control car races between Muller and a lil kid!!! thats actually a lotta fun and its nice to see the players chill out for sometime....i always hoped to be the lucky kid all these years but damn...im not a kid anymore. we then took a lil break and went to check out the stalls in the stadium and went for the usual speed gun test...but of course it wasn't so "usual" this time...There was another star apart from the tennis professionals...Akshay whacked those serves and broke the record of the day...lucky guy...They gave him a certificate and all....couldn't believe it myselff...but the proof's here...so who's gonna argue?
So anyway....after we had our share of laughs...we went back to the match...Paradon Scrichappan vs Marc Giquel.....WHAT----A----MATCH!!!!!!!!!!!both of them seriously battled it out....their groundstrokes were simply superb!!!! Endless rallies and hardly any net play ..Schrichappan's power was kinda dominating the game but in no way was Giquel wimping out...he fought every single point...the match was so good that i didn't even distract myself by takin out the camera to get Giquel's picture...but seriously...that guy's definitely gonna come up...of heck of a talented guy with tons of determination!!! It was a 3 setter and eventually Schrichappan won but hats off to Giquel for the fight....if this is the kinda excitement i experienced on day 4....the quarters...semis...and the finals are gonna rock! cant wait...will talk about tomorrow's matches...obviously tomorrow....