feather_ghyll: Tennis ball caught up at mid net's length with text reading 15 - love (Anyone for tennis?)
feather_ghyll ([personal profile] feather_ghyll) wrote2009-06-20 08:52 am

TENNIS: Wimbledon build-up.

Ah, so Nadal has pulled out. I'm sure it was both a difficult decision and not, putting yourself through seven potential five-setters when you're suffering from tendnitis, and, as a world No. 1 and champion, facing the likelihood of being out before that because you're not capable of playing your game.

Another weight on Murray's shoulders then/chance for him, and Wimbledon is different from the French. Federer and Del Potro must be feeling chirpier - although I would have thought that everyone would prefer to be a champion having beat Nadal. There's also Djokovic, but there doesn't seem to be that buzz around him. And I don't know who Haas is up to play in the first round.

Watched a fluff piece with Elena Dementieva on Breakfast. Maybe I'm too sensitive but would the chappie presenter be talking about the male world no. 4 at anything being a pin-up?

I'm reading Cassell's The British Girl's Annual from 1919, which has already featured an Angela Brazil story. It's a dipping into and dipping out of book. The stories are set up in columns, which I first thought was greaat, but it seems to make the story come to an end earlier.

[identity profile] callmemadam.livejournal.com 2009-06-20 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
I'll miss Nadal :-(
Is Dementieva the one who shrieks? I often can't watch women's matches because I can't stand the row.

I've got the British Girl's Annual for 1922, which includes a long story by EJO. Hidden treasures!

[identity profile] feather-ghyll.livejournal.com 2009-06-23 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I miss Nadal too. He's one of my current favourites, but I can understand why he had to pull ou.

Dementieva probably shrieks, most of the do.

Annuls cn be a treasure trove, which is why I've got back into buying them, although I generally prefer my stories longer.