Key Points
There I was, cruising at 35,000 feet above the ground, through the sort of blue that the sky never seems to be from ground level, barrelling through walls of clouds, the colour of which is different when we glance upwards from the earth..
Exhausted, bereft at having parted from my daughter in Vancouver, jittery with another long-haul stretch of no smoking (I had endured one during the flight from Vancouver to Tokyo), I reached for the remote and the headphone in front of me...
I have watched at stadiums, on TV at home and in bars and pubs on a tablet, even on a tiny phone screen (only highlights and reruns, never live)..
Here, as I watched on the tiny screen in front of me LED, high-definition display the passenger next to me and in front of me and two rows further up were watching a Hollywood film or a show..
Perhaps it is because I am dim, but it took me quite some time to come to terms with the fact that I was watching live action, in a real tennis match, with real players, in a city I knew well, while being so far away from where I would usually watch sport..
