tennis, life and a few things in between

^{The autumn sun in the morning}

Yesterday, 5-1, 5-3, 5-2: but couldn’t get my first serve in 😭, for not playing for a month or what?

My first serve was like 20%. However, my second serve – all underhand – was nearly perfect, except one double fault.

Today, is a different story, that I got all my first serve in, except one; no double but didn’t win all three sets: 2-5, 5-1, 2-2 (someone retired).

From yesterday:

5-1, 5-3, 5-2: but couldn’t get my first serve in 😭

第一局的 1 是俺输的[闭嘴]

一发只有20%
二发靠 under 小球 95%
一个误发

不知是男娃们不肯占俺便宜 没有一个在我二发时挪进几步. 感觉多数人都不喜欢或者很少变更. 习惯主宰一切.

我还怎么活下去呀
球都不会发了 喔喔喔

左胳膊还在疼

撞墙吧 大妈
嗯
… 南墙 还是北墙?

😤🤔🫢🤭

From today

🍂 the autumn sun

秋天的太阳🌅

🎾 2-5, 5-1, 2-2 有人病退

昨天撞墙很有效
今天只有一个二发

撞的哪面墙?
… 您觉得大妈还能记得吗 [偷笑][Lol]

On Sloane Street in London, there are two small private parks, Cadogan Place garden North & South, which has hard tennis courts.

The Color Purple was Steven Spielberg (1946-) movie, came out in 1985. This year at the Open, purple seems the color many players are wearing.

Y-3, which is part of Adidas, is sporting by many players.

• Taylor Townsend lost to Barbora Krejcikova in 3, after dominating the first set.
• Taylor Fritz def Tomas Machac easily in 3
• Jiri Lehecka d Adrian Mannarine in 4 set.
• Jessica Pegual d Ann Li in 2
• Elena Rybakina Marketa Vondrousova

The French player Mannarine advanced to the Round of 16 when Ben Shelton retired on Aug 29, last Friday.

^{pronate, only in practice}

No doubt on court condition (no rain in the past few hours) but a messed up line up begins the day. After swim, I spotted Graham, who’s getting out of his car. Oh … now we’ve five players.

With Graham, we dished out a bagel to G and Sally.

With Hope, we won 7-6 ^7:5 v two Gs.

With Randi, we won 6-3, 7-6 ^7-5. v Punni and Graham, who’s still in the cloud.

I’ve an unbelievably large number of double faults, both over- and underhand. No one held their serve for the first four games in the first set. My single-handed backhand cross-court drop shot by the net won the tie break, finally, especially in light of my drop shots not working for the past few days.

… lost my serve

Victoria Mboko (2006.8.26-; ? $1,256,948) is heavily touted on women’s tour lately, rising from 300+ to seeded 22 player at US Open 2025.

She wore a red outfit that looks smarshingly smart and beaufiul. However, she didn’t play well …

I’m happy that Barbora Krejcikova has won. The match looks lame, no fighting spirit – perhaps not needed: Mboko has double digit double faults.