Roland Garros - outside courts

Today is my first day at Roland Garros!! My 3rd grand slam! I am very excited and am up early and out the door, RG is one hour away by metro from my hostel.

There are signs everywhere as you ascend the underground pointing you in the direction of the entrance. The process is quiet smooth. We go through security, then tickets, then ID checks, then we're in.

Music greets us as we enter the grounds, a 4 piece playing all sorts of music in a jazz style. I wandered around for a bit taking in the sites and seeing what was around. Each day a RG newspaper is released with the day's schedule of play, plus articles which was mainly all in French aside from 4 pages, about yesterday's and today's matches. I highlighted all the games I wanted to see and settled in on court 6 to watch, what would become, a 3 hour 5 setter match between vedaseco and Becker, becker won.

From my seat I could see a big screen which showed both Sam & Federer's matches. Both Federer and Sam go through.

Roland Garros doesn't really have any good seating areas to sit and watch the big screens so you can watch the matches, and definitely no grassy areas. But the cool things they do have include:
- stands to charge your phone
- crepes
- you can't buy tickets at the gates & no upgrades on the day (that was sucky)
- when leaving the main courts you get a pass out
- daily RG newspaper

After the Vedaseco match I wandered around the courts and saw the following matches:
- Sam Stousr play doubles
- a young female Australian play German Angelique Kerber
- Andy Murray's brother Jamie, play doubles with an Australian, John Peers

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