Pods of surfers bobbed on their boards, watching eagle-eyed as white-capped waves rolled in and paddling fervently for sea-sprayed ride towardsthebeach.
And as the thing started clearing and the debris being washed away and the water quality getting better, they probably headed towardsthebeach, and that's where they found us.
If life is a beach for Philippoussis now, it wasn't towardsthe end of his career when injury blighted his final attempts to snare the one thing his resume lacked -- a major title.