Mets beat Marlins 6-3 @ Cardinals Roger Dean stadium in Jupiter.
They scored first, ends up with 2 runs in the 2nd inning.
Marlins is pretty busy to have summit meetings (on the mount). Mets has its summit meeting after the rookie pitcher gave up 8 balls, which resulted in two walks.
We left the game at top of 8th inning and finished watching it on tv at Coolinary.
… and the national anthem
We’re here again for the Open.
… more pix & videos on Google Maps
Last year we attended the regular game on day 1. This year we tried the qualifying round, which I like more – less people.
On serve: here are some slowmo of Venus, Caroline Wozniacki, Paula Badosa & Simona Halep
… since I’m in the process to overhaul my serve, I took many slow-motion serves of the female players:
Pre-paid parking is better than pay at entrance: $35 for SunPass and $40 for cash or credit card.
The projected quarter final; the pinky Santa Margherita Rosé Giardino garden and the Sunset Terrace arch.
Lacking corporate heavy hitters, such as Amex and Chase that are stables at US Open, La Roche-Posay passes out mini size suntan lotion here. At Amex corner at the US Open, they offered at least two different full sizes botles.
USTA offers qualifying rounds for free, but Miami charges a fee, which is fine.
Lockers. Clear bag policy. People do bring their own bottled water. The stadium provides free WiFi, with decent connectivity.
Bathrooms have no ac, if I remembered right. USTA do. The ground is nicely groomed and laid out. I enjoyed the different seating areas, bars and eateries.
One men and five women singles matches we watched, 99% trading baseline ground strokes, with 100% double hand backhand – out of the same cookie cutter, which is boring.
We watched the last three matches in full at the Grandstand:
A lot more Chinese women players are on tour now. Two or more decades behind the Russia.
The first 3 matches, we only watched the ending. The last 3 were all excellent. Especially seeing Venus.
I’m happy to see her but also sad at seeing her not able to return so many shots that used to be a cake walk for her. Venus lost to 19 years old Russian Diana Shnaider (2004-), 6-3, 6-3. The result is better than I anticipated: her opponent isn’t good. Love the sisters but at 43, many shots Venus used to brush aside with ease, now she couldn’t even get to it. It must be the love of the game that keeps her on tour. Seeing her play is A treat.
Caroline Wozniacki (1990-; Denmark) mom of two, defeat 22 years old French woman Clara Burel (2001-) 6-1, 6-4, an easy day at work.
They wear almost identical Adidas out fit – Caroline in one piece and the French in two. CW looks very fit after two children.
Their match was chair by Chinese chair umpire Jennifer Zhang Juan.
The last match: Paula Basosa beat Simona Halep 1-6, 6-4, 6-3.
A lot of Romanian fans cheering for Halep. But the funny thing is, the blue color of the flags have different shades – this is a first. Did they buy from a discount store who cheated on color?
Surprisingly, she didn’t scream like her old self, like an animal. The level of grunt is acceptable; making watching her play not a bad experience.
Theirs is the last one on the Grand Stand. By then, the Open ground is basking under the setting sun. With very few people around, it’s very enjoyable.
Two Romania flags’ blue have different shades. Both their outfits, Simone in two pinkish blue Badosa in one, a black dress have different color neckline: blue has yellow and black with deep pink. Both are nice.
… Miami Grand Prix is coming up shortly
A short swim at Hollywood Beach @ Hollywood, FL. The water is emerald green.
The best two sets I’ve played in a year or two: serving out both sets. We inspired one another
雾天
7:10 进池
7:38 上场
练发球
8:00-10:00 热身, 二局
二位男娃7:50到 把俺准备练发球的计划剪短
球发的怎么样?
第一球 发了个ace
一个发球失误
然后 就真的没有然后了- 因为竞争激烈 俺只好重操旧业 回归旧的发球方法
赢了当然开心
但心在滴血 – 靠旧方法 [抓狂] 不光彩.
我们已经约好炮了 – 下星期六 不见不散
🍀 happy St Patty’s Day 🍀
My new sun visor feels good and looks good too. However, my serve still hasn’t improved much 起早贪黑也没用. And my recent three matches are on the losing side:
– Today 3.14: 3-5, 4-5, 2-5
– Tue 3.12: 5-2, 5-1, 3-0 running out of time
– Sat 3.09: 0-5, 3-5, 4-5
…an advise from a fellow player, using blue tape to fix my grip … so far, no visible improvement.
6-3, 3-6
The first set, no hold, no doubles. The second set, I held but have two doubles.
Looking at my serves on video, I just want to kick myself: where’s the improvements?
My arm shouldn’t face forward … not pronated!
I tried scratch my back method – cut the up swing motion, place the racket at the back, elbow out, then toss the ball. But somehow, I still manage to change my grip AFTER tossing the ball. How talented am I.
My top and skirt are mostly wet when I start out on the tennis court, because I always go to the pool first, to swim a few laps, to warm up for the game. I towel dry then over to tennis.
Today’s wet is an extreme, and I don’t know why and what has happened, dripping wet.
If you’re trying to copy how a pro does the serve properly, keep watching it in slow motion over and over and try to memorize how it’s done and reply everything you saw when it’s your turn to practice it on the court or even off the court
Split your serve practice session into different separate segments like
Segment 1 – dribble the ball x number times before tossing
Got it perfected, move on to the next
Segment 2 – Work on your toss without hitting with your racket
Check the following:
How high was your toss?
How far away in front and to the side of you?
Put something on the ground where you expect the ball to land . You can use a coin or a piece of paper
Make sure you can land the ball on that target or close to it over and over
Now you’re ready to work with your racket: where it travels to reach the hitting position
Is the racket head all the way up like in the pictures? Whoa that’s usually for the advanced players
Very important to leave your shoulder from tossing hand to stay up before you start you service swing else your serve will most likely hit the net
Point to the ball if you don’t want to look like your serving food or drink
Assuming that you’ve learned the proper positioning of your feet so that there’s no issue bending your knees
Have someone watch you from different angles: from behind you, from the left side, right side to get some feedback
Too many pointers already and getting a headache?
Take a Tylenol and call me in the morning 😜😝😛
A small green frog is sitting at the corner of the table. At first, I thought it’s a trinket … No matter what I do, it just won’t budge… till the coach comes. And it goes downhill from there.
Three sets with Matt, Greg and Brad, won 2 lost one.
Two -:( including one that gave the game away, ultimately the set.
Coach said, that my shoulder isn’t turning: just one more thing to include to improve my serve.
Yesterday I swam 1,012 yard in 25 minutes.
Today, it’s a busy day – Dear diary
7am hit the pool. A man I’d played pickelball a couple of times with was two steps ahead of me (buy me a drink I’ll reveal his name wink …) and didn’t hold the door. Matt the pool cleaner was 2 steps behind me. I held the door for him – isn’t this the way suppose to be in a civilized place? (Watched Tucker’s interview of Putin? …) After a brief swim, as I was leaving, a gent came in. Although I was quite distance from the door, he held it for me. Thank you sir.
At tennis court, we’ve a cute but lazy company … Let’s go to the video above
We got to the social hall at 6:58pm, and we were late for 7pm wine tasting. Gush -:) Is it the lure of the wine or the social norm that you get to an event EARLY?
Live music, by a composer himself and my husband of Debussy’s Arabesque 1.
My first open water swimming in years, 1.2 miles at Sand Key Park, came in at 59 minutes. My friend Linda did it in 53 min. Water temp is 69°F. Both of us wear 3mm wet suit (my first) – actually most of 167 swimmers wear wet suit. My leisure time in the pool for 1,000 yard is about 25 minutes: a mile is 1,760 yards, 1.2 m = 2,112 yard.
This race has 5km, 2.4mile, 1.2mile and .5mile length. The first two have bus to take them to their starting point. The later two – walk. Lucky we’ve her husband who took our sandals, camera.
The 167 swimmers: two kids under 14, join the 0.5 mile event. One 75-79 man is in 1.2 miles. Two teen and one 60-64 lady swim 5k meter event.
I haven’t done any real swim for nearly two months – swim a bit before and after tennis as warm up and stretch. So today is a test and I feel great. When I get a little tired I switch to frog front crowl.
My friend is a seasoned outdoor person and brought fruits, multiple towels, shampoo n lotion etc … one would think these are so basic but I forgot them all; and also forgot my wallet: paid my lunch with Apple Pay. Maybe it’s the convenience of Apple wallet that I don’t bring my wallet often.
Getting up at 5:30, 5:57 waiting for the car pool outside 7:14, get to the park 8:08, walking toward our 1.2 miles starting point 8:30, race begins 9:28, I’m out of water – made it 10:30, award ceremony It’s a great race. My first time wearing a 3mm wetsuit to swim. Although I haven’t do any serious swim for months, but I didn’t struggle. I’m ok with my time. With some practice, I can improve
