Haas closed out the victory with a forehand winner, then shared a warm exchange at the net with a gracious Djokovic, who gave the crowd a wave as he left the court.
In the middle of it all, Monfils asked the chair umpire for permission to take an iPhone video of the crowd doing the wave.
Rather, it was the pitch that Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak and All-Star Kobe Bryant made to 2-time MVP Steve Nash to join Los Angeles that filtered through the crowd like the wave.
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And if Google caught the wave of the larger crowd creating, spreading, refining, defining, correcting and debating information, clearly Facebook sees their wave being even larger, because it can offer all of that and a bag of chips.
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Francis seemed to hold up well, although when riding in the popemobile, he wobbled a bit when he took his hands off the grab bar to wave to the crowd.
And with a final wave to the soaked crowd gathered around her, the new queen of Easter Island slides off her throne and disappears into the night, to the party that surely awaits.
It got so bad that, with Henman 4-0 down, the Mexican wave started - a sure sign that the crowd is either bored or satisfied that they know the end result.
Bloomberg made it a point to wave a pair of metrocards as he reminded the crowd of the 11 subway lines and Long Island Rail Road stop down below.
No-one who heard it will ever forget the tidal wave of sound welling from the depths of the crowd that greeted the news that Mr Obama had won - it rippled back through the crowd that stretched far into the darkness of the night and seemed to hang and echo between the downtown skyscrapers.
If the host is in a crowd or is not easily accessible, depart quietly so as not to set off a wave of departures.
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