Those are pics from Chennai Open 2005. Lifted from the Chennai Open website, I acknowledge; I didn't carry a camera I'm afraid, but it was an amazing experience watching Moya and Srichappan up so close. The final was a treat to watch, it went down to the wire and had plenty of entertaining rallies.
The best part was watching these guys serve. Matches on TV hardly ever show a full serve action. In fact I picked up a few tips watching Srichaphan and have been bombing the courts with some power serves ever since.
Speaking of serves, a couple of interesting serve stats from the tournament:
Prakash Amritraj served up a 219km zipper during his 1st round match against Ivo Hubereger. Though he lost the match to the the Swiss, this remained the fastest serve of Chennai Open.
Paradorn Srichaphan served the most number of aces in the tournament. And here's an interesting one I read in a newspaper: One of these was the slowest first service ace - at just 137km! Srichaphan, serving strong and hard, suddenly slipped a fizzing wide serve that caught his quarter-final opponent on the wrong foot.
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