tennis, life and a few things in between

Oh the sneakers.

A few years ago, I bought four pairs of the same Adidas Barricade sneakers around 2012 (… now they’re onto 13): two white and two grey. I won’t do it again:

1. don’t remember I’ve it. Today by accident I found the fourth pair, after purchasing the new one, which is too wide.
2. … now the maker seems to continue the model … making me to stock up a mote point

… more sneakers

• On flamingo cloud 5
• K-Swiss blue durawrap flex
• Asics white gel-dedicate 7
• Adidas in Italy, 1989

… the last of four pairs Adidas Barricade

Recently, the grand slams have been handing out fines …

• Wimbledon 2019: Bernard Tomic fined £45,000 for not meeting ‘professional standards’ BBC. (Here he was bored in 2017.)
• Anna Tatishvili’s £41,000 fine following a 6-0 6-1 French Open

An awesome ending to a first round match on day 2 at Wimbledon.

Serena is playing the 31 years old Italian Giulia Gatto-Monticone (1987). And on the match point, they played as if in a ping pong game.

The commentators talk about the longest matches @ Wimbledon in the past. It doesn’t seem to be fun for all: not to the spectators, not to the players and not to the organizers – it certainly mess up their schedule. The English is kind of stubborn people who wants to hold on to tradition but at what cost? And how did they even to have the industrial revolution in the first place?

1-2, very close.

Yesterday FT published an interview of Roger Federer, on his plane to a tourney to Madrid – You cannot be alone at the top. Well written.

Dominic Thiem said of Serena when he was kicked out of press room, to make room for Queen Serena … Of course Serena didn’t do it. In fact, she asked for a smaller room or she could come back later. “It’s rude” she said to the French Open (2019) office.

But the Frenchies probably felt that she just lost her third round, the immediate press conference might be more interesting. So, they told Thiem to get lost. So Thiem said, without trying to find out the truth, that Serena has bad personality. (Actually, not just Thiem, this blogger spent 9 minutes talking about this incident, without trying to find the truth first.)

Then when Thiem finally realized that he made an axx out of himself, he offered to play mixed doubles with Serena.

What? 

What do you think you’re, Thiem? you should be the one being picked. You’ve won no grand slam at all… Oh boy.   

another all blue day, even the new guy wears blue. Last week I forgot socks … the photo on the lower left was a week ago and the right is after playing today.

话说现在流行改名 … 还蔚然成风 (王安石叫Vans, 朱棣是Judy)
俺第一次被’改名’是1979 去香港
二夜一天的那种火车 六个铺. 有一家香港人 爸妈儿女
爸妈特别好 鸡同鸭讲跟俺聊天 讲不通还可以写嘛 …
妈妈说 “哦 … 你是阿Ying …” 广东话的ning 是ying
我: “不是不是 俺是小Ning …”
妈: “是呀 我知道 Ying 嘛 … 那就是阿Ying了…”
俺刚刚还挺高兴的因为她赞俺漂亮 😊 现在俺怎么又变成了 … 乡下妹了？ 哈哈哈.

中国南方 北方的语言差距

40年过去了 阅历多了 信心也增加了. 俺真的不再介意别人怎么叫俺了 Whatever you desire

纽约New York 的约 York 是为个英国的约克公爵而命名 – 此公就是后来的英王 詹姆斯二世. 美国到处都是欧洲地区的名字 巴黎了 日内瓦了 琳琅满目 举不胜举. 要是改名的话 大概得麻烦一阵了- 除非吃饱了撑的 …

由此想起昨天的新的小鲜肉 和旧的小鲜肉们. 他们都比俺打的好 但是俺每次赢 (99%归功于俺的不幸搭档) 或者打个漂亮的球 他们都会赞几句 我想这是信心所在吧？

由此自然想起一个羽毛球🏸️先生. 技术很好有一次就是我们两… 结果我发球他扣死 再发 再扣 … 他发 俺回 又被扣死… 俺一直在捡球. 五分钟后俺就走了. 他也没有得打 … 我直觉的想 “我们都知道你打的好… 至于这么没有信心吗？” 其实有时碰上弱对手, 迁就着打应该是个不错的方法. 比如可以练习一下单反 …

自觉自己是个运动员 … 但是还是觉得跟不上 赶不上 一浪接一浪的运动.

不八了 刚刚收到一个非常难查的资料
谢谢未莫面的朋友
干杯去 🍻

请包涵错别字 乡下大妈 阿Ying

At 2019 French Open, I saw Amanda Anisimova who played her first match on day 3 and won over Harmony Tan, a French Chinese who was born in Paris.

~ Anisimova adv to QF @ Wimbledon 2025

Anisimova also took out Simona Halep in the Quarter on Thursday (2 n 4) but lost to Barty in the semi (7, 3 n 3) – the first set she came back from 0-5 to win it in tiebreak 7 to 4.

Dominic Thiem of Austria who plays with single hand backhand, lost final to Nadal, the second year in a row. The first two sets were exciting but the last two were a given.

Roland Garros has a glassy new court: Simonne-Mathieu – instantly my fave.

… and the little village & greenies

2019 trip: Tuesday, Day of Court Simonne Mathieu @ the Open.

Jasmine Paolini vs Daria Kasatkina (2, 3) @ Court 1 (kind of like USO’s Court 17.

StefanoTravaglia vs Adrian Mannarino @ Simonne Mathieu

Jeļena Ostapenko vs Victoria Azarenka @ Simonne Mathieu. Lots of breaks …

Aryna Sabalenka vs Dominika Cibulková @ Simonne Mathieu

Zheng Saisai vs Wang Qiang @ Court 12. The last point. The giant lens seems can zoom the moon down to earth -:). The photographer is from Xinhua News Agency.

Day 2 here.

2019 trip.

Day of Serena @ the Open

It’s heart breaking to see Serena has to struggle to win in three sets. But she prevailed. She’s mentally strong and determined – all the power to her.

I lounged by Court 7 (the bathroom is modern and clean), then went to watch Serena from high seat.

Court 6: Maxime Janvier vs Pablo Cuevas (4, 4, 2)

Su-Wei Hsieh (4, 6, 0) vs Viktorija Golubic @ Court 12

Day 3

This year it began on Sunday, May 26 in Paris, till June 9. I attended the next two days, on Monday and Tuesday with my gang.

~ Anisimova and Thiem
~ Sportsmanship 体育精神 & Mahut

First, something new: the center court – Philippe Chatrier that seats 15,225, a red clay wall, and a 5,000 seat court Simonne-Mathieu – my favorite and I spend much of my second day there. Tennis, as whole must have some banner years for them to expand so much recently, New York for example,

Second, I got to watch Serena play on the new center court. It is the last one to add a retractable roof, by next year, 2020.

Third, the security check is tight: checking bag and patting down. Then there is another layer: they issue you the ticket at the entry with your name printed (same as 2017), and you need to present your photo ID with your ticket to finally get in.

Court Suzanne Lenglen has 10,068 seats.

Court Simonne-Mathieu holds 5,000 spectators: