by hig » Thu Jun 18, 2015 12:31 am
honestly if you wanna see tennis and see/perhaps meet/get signatures from top players, i would highly highly recommend paying a visit to montreal in august and attending the rogers cup. it's one of the larger hard court tourneys before the US and many of the top players attend; however, in the days leading up to the actual event, the qualifiers are played and the top ranked players usually practice on the nearby practice courts. for qualifiers, admission is FREE so essentially, you can just get in and go to the practice courts and see federer and djokovic and tsonga and nadal and co practicing (and be 10 ft away from them)! it's an awesome experience and you can even converse with some of them, depending on how busy they are (my cousin chatted with tsonga and i talked a bit with gasquet)! if you wanna see actual matches, there are real matches going on in the stadiums which are also free. overall, it's a super fun and great event to attend. i've been to the US open and honestly the rogers cup is 100x the experience in my opinion. since i went the first time, i've probably been another 2-3 times. it's great fun; you can see pros up close and get signatures and see them play soccer tennis with each other (at one point nadal and almagro played some soccer tennis during some downtime). federer rode around in a golf cart too. go to the rogers cup to catch some cool tennis!!