Mercedez-Benz Open qualifiers

Herb, Jesse and I headed on over to UCLA for the Mercedez-Benz Open qualifiers matches. It was free, we got to sit as close as we wanted, and we got to watch three courts of action simultaneously. Even the qualifiers are kick-ass good, not to mention fun to watch, and to think that all these guys would get their butts whooped in the first round by the regulars of the ATP tour. The only qualifier I recognized was Italy's Christiano Carrati. We managed to catch a Behr and a Joyce match, both of which went to a third and was highly entertaining.

After all that good tennis, we just had to test our skills on the court. I think it's really amazing how watching good tennis raises your game... for a few hours anyway. After tennis, Herb, Jesse, Hui Chin and I had dinner at Thai BBQ, and we were treated once again to an epic Herb-Jesse dialog, that to my current experience, has never failed to intrigue me.