tennis, life and a few things in between

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Later in the day we visited the National Museum of Natural History and saw this exhibit .. ha ha ha, have to post it.

The Liaison hotel in DC offers an hour yoga on the pool deck in the morning.
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Later in the day we visited the National Museum of Natural History and saw this exhibit .. ha ha ha.

The same yoga instructor from Tuesday came again.

In the Moongate Garden, more pix on piwigo

On the LIRR/#7 promenade: left is US Open, Arthur Ashe Stadium and right hand side is the New York Mets baseball, CitiField. More pix on piwigo
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.. they lost 2-3.

Serena won over Lucie Safarova (4 February 1987; Brno, Czech) 7-6 and 6-4. She didn’t look good but managed to win.
Over the years, since Serena turned pro in 1995, there are scores of players, especially women from the former eastern block, Russia in particular. Anna Kournikova (7 June 1981, Moscow) is the same age as Serena and they both turned pro in 1995. Anna never won a singles title while Serena 17 grand slam titles alone.

多伦多的 Rogers Cup 几年前去看过，地方还可以. 加拿大除了冰球还是冰球. 多伦多的冰球博物馆挺好的 … 小威赢了Safarova. 苏联的娃娃娃们 如洪水猛兽 进军网球 人数之多没有其它国家可以比美 但是成绩马马虎虎，没有几个大满贯 她们的总和远不及 小威风一个人. 大概是人种杂吧？… 奇怪：为什么普京被这么看好？[疑问]

Va sounds as dolls or babies in Chinese. Those 金发碧眼的娃娃们 don’t really amount to much. If my counting is right, since 1995 – they won total of 8, five are from Maria Sharapova:

• Aussie Open: Sharapova 2008
• French Open: Myskina 2004; Kuznetsova 2009, Sharapova 2012 & 2014
• Wimbledon: Sharapova 2004
• US Open: Kuznetsova 2004, Sharapova 2006

Russians are coming, Russian are coming, turns out to be unnecessary.

The 娃娃军 (some are not Russian), in random order:

1. Anna Kournikova
2. Maria Sharapova
3. Ekaterina Makarova
4. Lucie Safarova
5. Svetlana Kuznetsova
6. Petra Kvitova
7. Dominika Cibulkova
8. Jarmila Gajdosova
9. Andrea Hlavackova
10. Daniela Hantuchova
11. Alisa Kleybanova
12. Tsvetana Pironkova
13. B. Zahlavova Strycova
14. Oksana Kalashnikova
15. Alexandra Panova
16. Jarmila Gajdosova
17. Magdalena Rybarikova
18. Jana Cepelova
19. A.Pavlyuchenkova
20. Lucie Safarova
21. Alla Kudryavtseva
22. Anastasia Rodionova
23. Kristyna Pliskova
24. Karolina Pliskova
25. Klara Koukalova

• 9/8, men’s final, Greed, is good/贪婪,是好事?
• 9/7, Chang’s own US Open Final, 张德培自己的美网公开赛
• 9/6, semi Djokovic v Nishikori
• 9/5, 彭帅: 回来继续打？种族原因? The multiculturalism, bending backward
• 9/3, 张德培扣人心弦的表情
• 9/1, Sharapova the working girl?
• 8/28, 大威的裙子是不是短了点？
• 8/26, day 2: Nicole Gibbs; day / night; Schiavone/King; new courts; skirt;
• 8/22, the qualifying round, Beck vs Ram
• 8/21, Ilhan v Zverev, with Tracy and Serena; Lopez
• The fashion at the Open & the cover girl
• 5/5 Premium seat package + Lux suite package

main – (love my yoga: here & here 2)

1. Cow Face Pose @ Liaison
2. Fish Pose
3. Half Lord Of The Fishes
4. Hero 1 Pose
5. Mariachi Twist
6. Reverse Warrior Pose
7. Revolved Half Moon
8. Revolved Side Angle Pose
9. Seated Sage Twist
10. Simple Seated Twist
11. Straddle Forward Bend Twist pose

Joker vs Dimitrov; Boris Becker looks on; Maria Sharapova cheered Dimitrov on.