U.S. Open Tennis 2009 Aug, Sep

The U.S. Open pictures below are presented on this page in a webpage-suitable (and email-suitable) size, 650 pixels high --- with links to the original digital photo size (3648x2736 or 2736x3648). To see the photos, simply scroll down the page. The larger (original) sizes are shown in a separate window. Close (or minimize) the separate window(s) to access this window again.

Introduction : I attended the first week of the 2009 U.S. Open --- the first five days : Mon 31 Aug Tue 01 Sep Wed 02 Sep Thu 03 Sep Fri 04 Sep My wife and my son and his girlfriend attended the first day or two. Hence a picture of them is below. I had 'grounds' tickets, not tickets for the big stadium ( Ashe stadium). So these pictures were taken on the 'outside courts' or at the Armstrong stadium court --- or at the 'Grandstand' court attached to Armstrong stadium. I did not take as many pictures as in past years --- partly because it is tedious to put a multitude of photos on these web pages. See my 2006 U.S. Open photos for pictures of the grounds. Somdev Devvarman, who graduated from UVA after winning the NCAA national men's singles championship his junior and senior years, qualified this year. He beat Frederico Gil in the first round and was beaten by Philip Kohlschreiber in the 2nd round. Some pictures of Somdev are below --- awaiting serve, backhand prep, backhand follow through, forehand prep, serve, and name on the big scoreboard on Armstong stadium. 3648x2736 3648x2736 3648x2736 3648x2736 3648x2736 3648x2736 3648x2736 Elena, Mark, Marlene 3648x2736 Blaise, Marlene, Mark, Elena A few Ivo Karlovic pics : 3648x2736 3648x2736 3648x2736 3648x2736 Taylor Dent, coming back after multiple back surgeries : 3648x2736 Feliciano Lopez : 3648x2736 3648x2736 The big Video Scoreboard on Ashe stadium, at night : (The dancing fountain waters are on left and right.) 3648x2736 I thought I took more photos than this. If I find others, I will post them here.

U.S. Open 2009 Men's Singles Draw :

Men's Singles - Draw and RESULTS (PDF file)

Bottom of the U.S. Open Tennis 2009 (Aug-Sep) web page. To return to a previously visited web page, click on the Back button of your web browser, a sufficient number of times. OR, use the History-list option of your web browser. NOTE: The webpage-suitable files are about 500 Kilobytes in size, each. The original files are about 2.4 Megabytes in size, each --- about 5 times larger. (If I had used aggressive compression in creating the webpage-suitable files, I could have made them about 100 Kilobytes in size without much noticeable degradation in image quality. In that case, the webpage-suitable files would have been about 25 times smaller than the originals.) It sure is nice when people reduce their photos about 5 to 25 times in file-size before attaching them to emails --- and before putting the photos in their web pages.     :-) Web pages load much faster, and emails take much less room on disk drives. Page was created 2010 Feb 22.