2007 Acura Classic

La Costa Resort and Spa is, as the name shows, a fabulous resort hotel with a spa in Carlsbad near San Diego. I badly wanted to visit there to get my dry skin healed, but this time my purpose was not a spa or a gorgeous restaurant, but tennis.
US open series Acura Classic was taken place there. I had some tennis class before, and hastily acquired a little knowledge of tennis, and about a month ago, my partner and I bought the ticket for our free weekend without even knowing who were going to play. Actually, we had not checked the result until late at night the day before, and were still believing the game we would watch should have been a semi final. (Our local Japanese magazine said the game on Aug 5th would be a semi final.)
When we checked the result the day before, however, the number of the remaining players for the singles tournament looked only two, Maria Sharapova and Patty Schnyder, and for doubles tournament, 2 teams. Our subtle expectation we might be able to see Sharapova turned out a fairly high possibility. Yet we still did not know if we could see the game of singles or doubles.

The result was below ;)
It was a final of Maria Sharapova vs. Patty Schnyder. In addition to that, we were able to see the doubles final if we still had an energy. Unfortunately, 4 hours of sun exposure discouraged us from sitting for next game.


Maria Sharapova won by beating Patty Schnyder 6-2, 3-6 and 6-0 :)