It’s January, which means it’s time for our annual Australian Open selfie :)
Selfie of a man and a woman, both wearing sunglasses and straw hats.
This year’s Australian Open was fun. We didn’t wander around too much, but we got excellent seats at Court 3 and stayed there for most of the day. (The joys of getting there early and getting lucky with the day’s schedule of play so that most of the matches you want to watch are all being played on one court.)
A woman crouches low in front of the net on a tennis court while her partner - behind her, at the other end of the court - serves the ball.
One of the doubles matches we got to watch on this court included top-ranked Australian player Ash Barty. The queues to get in just before that match were the longest we’ve seen in a while.
Long queues outside Court 3 at the Australian Open in Melbourne.
Fortunately we’d arrived early enough to watch the match from a nice, shady spot :)
World #1 Ash Barty waits to receive a server from her opponent.
Also, we were sitting just below one of the Hawk-Eye cameras that tracks the ball during play. I only learned today that this ball tracking technology is accurate up to 3.6mm!
A camera mounted to a pole around a tennis court.