PERSONAL: Travels and tennis
Sep. 5th, 2017 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feather_ghyllI’ve been on holiday abroad – my next review will tell you where. I found bookshops everywhere I went (well, in one place, I had the help of a guidebook). Second-hand bookshops smell like second-hand bookshops – a comforting smell – even if their English-language sections are small (and overpriced). There will, hopefully, be reviews of some of the books I read when not sight-seeing or when I was resting my weary feet.
I had access to Eurosport, which meant I saw bits of the US Open, although I didn’t have a full grasp of what was going on, because it was the German Eurosport so I barely understood what they’d be talking about. I’d hear the name of a player not on the court and wonder if they were being mentioned because they were playing the winner or what. The next time I find BBC’s tennis coverage parochial, I hope to remember the attention given to German no-hopers here.
Apart from them, I saw a bit of Nadal, Federer, lots of Sharapova (I’m glad she got beaten when she did, because that nice little rest she got was because she was suspended and the absent new mother Serena Williams has always had her number. Still, she’s obviously back. Poor Simona Halep, imagine being no. 2 seed and getting that draw for your first match.) I saw an out of sorts Ostapenko lose, and the last match I watched was a replay of Kvitova beating Muguruza, which I’m pleased about for Kvitova herself and which means that the ladies’ grand slams will all be held by different players.
I had access to Eurosport, which meant I saw bits of the US Open, although I didn’t have a full grasp of what was going on, because it was the German Eurosport so I barely understood what they’d be talking about. I’d hear the name of a player not on the court and wonder if they were being mentioned because they were playing the winner or what. The next time I find BBC’s tennis coverage parochial, I hope to remember the attention given to German no-hopers here.
Apart from them, I saw a bit of Nadal, Federer, lots of Sharapova (I’m glad she got beaten when she did, because that nice little rest she got was because she was suspended and the absent new mother Serena Williams has always had her number. Still, she’s obviously back. Poor Simona Halep, imagine being no. 2 seed and getting that draw for your first match.) I saw an out of sorts Ostapenko lose, and the last match I watched was a replay of Kvitova beating Muguruza, which I’m pleased about for Kvitova herself and which means that the ladies’ grand slams will all be held by different players.
