PERSONAL: Shopping/TENNIS: Shocks
May. 28th, 2014 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feather_ghyllThe reason why I didn’t watch the tennis yesterday was that I went shopping and successfully bought mumble books (all hardback girls own apart from one paperback D.E. Stevenson) for mumble mumble pounds. Actually, it worked out as being about £4.40 per book and not one of them cost more than you’d pay for a first hand paperback. It’s just the volume that makes me want to mumble. I’ll be posting many reviews about this haul, I hope.
While I wasn’t watching tennis, plenty happened on the women’s side, with seeds falling everywhere. Williams (Serena) and Li Na are the biggest surprises, but many others have gone. I suppose it's the cumulation that's the surprise, although it's telling that so many women have won the French recently. That is, nobody has come close to Nadal's domination.
I came home today to watch Sharapova’s second set against the tricky Pironkova.
Having seen the replay of Williams against Garbine Muguruza (I had better learn her name), it seemed like it was several things coming together for the upset – I’m not one of those who was following the WTA closely enough to have heard of the Spanish player, although what I saw of her quality and composure impressed.
While I wasn’t watching tennis, plenty happened on the women’s side, with seeds falling everywhere. Williams (Serena) and Li Na are the biggest surprises, but many others have gone. I suppose it's the cumulation that's the surprise, although it's telling that so many women have won the French recently. That is, nobody has come close to Nadal's domination.
I came home today to watch Sharapova’s second set against the tricky Pironkova.
Having seen the replay of Williams against Garbine Muguruza (I had better learn her name), it seemed like it was several things coming together for the upset – I’m not one of those who was following the WTA closely enough to have heard of the Spanish player, although what I saw of her quality and composure impressed.
