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Tamaragl
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Quote from: circe on May 05, 2018, 12:01 pm
The WTA need to get a grip with the 21st century and offer PR for pregnancy as well as illness. If anyone can achieve this advancement, it is the queen of achievements Serena. 

On the more cheerful news I have bagged day one tickets for FO (no Andy) and Rosmalen  (no guarantee of Andy but decent  chance plus always wanted to try a non English grass tourney). So excited.
Lucky lucky you! So envious.
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marathonarthur
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>  Agree with that. Sounds like Circe has made some good choices for tickets? A pregnancy and tennis discussion is likely to be rather contentious. Next it will expand to male players and paternity leave which is not where I wanted my simple question to end up.

My better news is that I have tickets for day 10 (No 1 court) at Wimbledon from the ballot this year.  Not certain what sort of matches we will see there at that stage of the tournament.

Last year it was all doubles .......................  not my favourite form of the game!  

I do have some Queens tickets too so may have some luck with some good singles there on 20th June?  I do enjoy Men's singles more than other form of tennis and Queen's is good for that. However it is only what I prefer (before I am targeted for discrimination?) !
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moonglow
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Quote from: marathonarthur on May 05, 2018, 12:36 pm
>  Agree with that. Sounds like Circe has made some good choices for tickets? A pregnancy and tennis discussion is likely to be rather contentious. Next it will expand to male players and paternity leave which is not where I wanted my simple question to end up.

My better news is that I have tickets for day 10 (No 1 court) at Wimbledon from the ballot this year.  Not certain what sort of matches we will see there at that stage of the tournament.

Last year it was all doubles .......................  not my favourite form of the game! 

I do have some Queens tickets too so may have some luck with some good singles there on 20th June?  I do enjoy Men's singles more than other form of tennis and Queen's is good for that. However it is only what I prefer (before I am targeted for discrimination?) !

I hope you'll have a great time at Queens and I wouldn't have thought you'd be targeted for preferring men's tennis to women's, you know!
And Day 10 at Wimbledon sounds wonderful Smile
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marathonarthur
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Moonglow,

Thank you. It was more that in life now we are not really entitled to have preferences so too easy to get defensive? I just like the men's game better. Nothing sinister but enjoy it more perhaps because it reflect how I would have liked to play?  I did have a good first serve despite being tiny by tennis player height standards!
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moonglow
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^  I don't see why we can't have preferences and I have to say I definitely prefer to watch men's tennis - if it's regarded as sinister to watch the men, then that's just stupid!  Well today's male tennis players are quite tall on the whole, but in the olden days there was Fabrice Santoro who wasn't very tall but he was a lovely player to watch and Pate Sampras called him The Magician, and this name has stuck.
It sounds as if your first serve was very good and If you're not as tall as Shapo and the others, then this doesn't matter.  You don't play tennis nowadays?
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marathonarthur
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^ M,

My skill in service was accuracy and good speed. I could hit the lines with regularity on first serve. Did you ever play a let and do the serve again if you hit a tape on a clay court? I frequently would need two lets. 5'8" is very short for a tennis player so my speed and ability with consistency was perhaps unexpected. My other ability was endurance so i was able to get more back than most as I ran for ever. I could have done a duracell bunny advert.  I stress here that my interest in playing tennis was pure enjoyment with the game.

I broke my playing arm elbow in three places over ten years ago and it is stitched together with three titanium plates and hinges so it just does not work like the original ball joint so many sports were put on hold and never retried!  That includes tennis, golf and swimming. I did try the last one (weakest ability) first but it was hard and watching me try to do a length of crawl must be a laugh. No style at all and very tiring on the arm. I did the injury running! I keep on saying that I will play on the village court with my son, who was good,  to test the arm out but it is a low priority.

That's it.  Time to get back to rankings. I do expect Andy to get back to a good standard but not necessarily high in the rankings. In my opinion sport is mainly a mental activity despite all the training some of these players and athletes do. It is about wanting it (being in the zone etc) more than either skill or fitness. In that Spanish  clip of Andy on this site you can see that his biggest wins are when he was in the right place mentally. Those periods, I think, are not predictable nor totally under your own control.
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moonglow
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^  lol you could have done a Duracell bunny jump!
It was very bad luck that you broke your elbow a few years ago, and it's always the arm you use which often gets broken  somehow - I broke my right wrist about 10 years ago and it took a long time before it actually worked properly.  Swimming sounds a good idea for you I think.   However the main thing is that you're ok even if you no longer play high class tennis ...
I'm sure Andy will try very hard to reach a high ranking as soon as he can.
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nikko
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You don't know how shocking it is until you see it...

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circe
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Oof
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dex
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So did they just send Andy his medal in the post??
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moonglow
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^  I think they send him a letter awarding him the knighthood but I don't know if they send the medal to him in the post!
But this is being talked about on the last 2 pages of the articles thread here at MW where Aileen is trying to explain it .............
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amongsttheleaves
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According to the commentators on Amazon Prime today, Andy has not applied for Protected Ranking and will be relying on WCs the rest of the season.

What tournament would refuse him anyway?
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Tamaragl
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Quote from: amongsttheleaves on June 25, 2018, 06:18 pm
According to the commentators on Amazon Prime today, Andy has not applied for Protected Ranking and will be relying on WCs the rest of the season.

What tournament would refuse him anyway?
And very smart, I think. It means he'll be coming up against all kinds of players, not necessarily superstars, and hopefully getting plenty of matchplay, which is what he needs.
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Quote from: Tamaragl on June 25, 2018, 06:21 pm
And very smart, I think. It means he'll be coming up against all kinds of players, not necessarily superstars, and hopefully getting plenty of matchplay, which is what he needs.

Andy up to 149 in live rankings after his win today.
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Aileen
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Quote from: dex on June 12, 2018, 07:48 am
So did they just send Andy his medal in the post??
Quote from: moonglow on June 12, 2018, 07:56 am
^  I think they send him a letter awarding him the knighthood but I don't know if they send the medal to him in the post!
But this is being talked about on the last 2 pages of the articles thread here at MW where Aileen is trying to explain it .............
There are six levels of knighthood, and with some of them you do get an insignia, but Andy's is a just a simple knighthood, so he gets nothing to go along with it.
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