Back to Photos IndexThe Championships, WIMBLEDON, Day 4 -
June 24, 2002.
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A wonderful day out which began with standing in a queue at 7 in the morning, and ended with us meeting Linford Christie and John Inverdale doing a filler piece for BBC Sport. The matches photographed here are first Vacek v Ancic (won, eventually, by Vacek), and Coetzer v Batacha (won by Baltacha, much to everyone's surprise). Both winners went out in the next round.
There are a few more photos on the next roll of film, which will have to join these in due course, when I manage to finish it :) The perils of Real Film Photography, y'know... Speaking of which, all the match photos here were taken on a manual Vivtar SLR with 70-210 manual zoom, on 400 ISO film. And yes, I know that's too slow for sports photography. Which explains why the focus is occasionally dodgy, 'cos I had the aperture right open to get the shutter speed I wanted. I'm quite happy with the results, considering.
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The queue... |
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Seen from Court 3... |
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Mario Ancic. |
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Jan Vacek |
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Ancic |
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Vacek |
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Ancic, being variably acrobatic... |
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Vacek... |
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Ancic... |
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Vacek, victorious. |
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Coetzer, in warm up... |
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And Elena Baltacha, likewise. |
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Coetzer. |
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Random view. I think I liked the clouds, but I got the exposure wrong for them to come out. |
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Baltacha... |
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Coetzer... |
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... prepares to serve |
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Baltacha prepares to recieve service. |
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Linford Christie, John Inverdale, and the camera man at the 'Speed of Serve' gadget... |
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... And signing autographs. |
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