The Tennis Channel and a couple of DC sports desks were also there for these special videographic moments. We tried to provide you more candid shots than they would. We had no idea that we’d (very briefly) be on television and we’d dress better if we could do it all over again. Luckily, our most senior reporter was behind the camera in this video, so it is not a matter for your concern. We didn’t even know we were permitted to walk on Center Court until the ceremony was 85% over. (rookie foul)

We will do a post about all the knowledge we have gained from the lunch roundtable of professional tennis reporting experts that we have met with our editor supplying creatively-licensed pen names. Tennis Maryland is blessed to have taken a summer clinic on tennis reporting with these instructors. That will be a post for later in the week. We just learned to embed video. Now, we are learning to embed ourselves. It’s one thing to play tennis against someone of a much higher caliber. In fact, it feels like a free $70 private lesson. To be completely out-gunned by pros who can cite the Top 10 of the 2009 Granby (CAN) challenger feels like a $300 an hour lesson. Or 130 mph, if you will.

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