5 reasons why attending a tennis tournament live is better than watching it on TV

3. The proximity to the tennis players makes you feel like a rock band groupie

Marcel Granollers, the rock star

While on the one hand you worry about the relative lack of security for the stars, on the other hand your closeness to them gives you a unique thrill. For a tennis fan, names like Stanislas Wawrinka (that backhand!), Mikhail Youzhny (that backhand, again!) and Fabio Fognini (those effortlessly slapped winners!) sound akin to those of rock stars. So when you see one of them casually walking across the grounds, you find it hard to resist jumping up and down and shouting out their name.

One day, as we were rushing out from Centre Court to catch the end of a match on Court 1, my friend bumped into Vijay Amritraj. Literally. And that was the high point of our day. See what I mean?