After landing in San Francisco Friday night, my Dad and I were off to watch Venus Williams battle Elena Dementieva in the semi-finals of the Bank of the West Classic Saturday afternoon – the longest running women-only professional tennis tournament in the world.
In the same session, the doubles match featured both Williams sisters playing Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Nadia Petrova.
Obtaining TicketsWe needed to buy two tickets for the match. Before we parked I got out of the car to look for tickets on the secondary market while my …