Pacific Life Open

This week the Pacific Life Open began. We are told that it is the 5th largest tennis tournament in the world. We like it because it's fun! Spencer and Madelyn are Ball Kids again this year and I'm again a Ball Kid Coordinator/Captain(don't know quite what they're calling it this year.) It's always loads of fun and we meet kids from all over the place who come just to volunteer here. Yesterday I got some pictures of Spencer and Madelyn doing there jobs. However, I heard later that I missed the best happening of the day. Spencer was working a match between Max Mirnyi and Teimuraz Gabashvili. He was the umbrella holder for Gabashvili. Spencer piled up balls in his corner at the changeover (90 sec. break) and rushed to get the umbrella which said player had already opened(very unusual!). He opened it with such force that it became concave. It looked as if the wind had blown it out! Spencer now had the umbrella and the crowd was laughing. He didn't quite no how to fix it or what to do so he decided to try to shade the player anyway with it all blown out. The crowd laughed some more and finally a linesperson got the umbrella and fixed it. We all thought it must have looked funny with Spencer trying to shade the player with a blown out umbrella.