Okay, so attack is not really the right word, it was more they were mass-moving and we were getting in their way, and there wasn't a lot of killing going on either. But still, hiding under my coat and my boyfriend whilst thousands of bees swarmed overhead was not how I was expecting to spend my time on Henman Hill. Pretty interesting though.
The tennis seemed to tie seamlessly with the warm, breezy, changeable day - a sedate match or period of play in the sunshine for The Fed and Djoko and a tumultuous emotional storm for Serena Williams, playing in her first Slam since she injured her foot after winning Wimbledon last year. But she came through against a dangerous first-round opponent (Rezai) and made it clear for all the world to see that she was more than happy to be back. After the year she's had, a win at Wimbledon - nothing major for the Serena of old - must feel like a mountain climbed.
There have been few shocks so far but some amazing tennis. My matches of the Championships so far:
Stepanek v Verdasco - Verdasco the eventual winner in five scintillating sets. A match I would have seen had the rain not come early on the opening day...
Kimiko Date-Krumm v Venus Williams - absolute peach. Exactly why I like tennis.
Roll on tomorrow, hopefully with less swarms.
I'll keep you blogged...
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