tennis, life and a few things in between

Shannon Lam from US, lost to Mia Pohankova of Slovakia (2008-). Lam earned $1,122 prize money … Mia ranks 956 in singles and 1028 in doubles.

Zhang Shuai lost her mixed doubles match today, with Marcelo Arevalo, 6-2, 4-6, 10-12 to two Americans, Rajeev Ram and Katie Volynets.

Jelena Ostapenko (1997-; 2012; $15m) played so well, like in the French Open final in 2017: all angles, daring and went for broke. The score told the story: 6-1,  6-3 v Yulia Putintseva, the Russian born Kazakhstani player (1995-; 2009; $7m). Elena Rybakina is also born in Russia and plays for Kazakhstan, also won her quarters match today. Ostapenko’s hair is remarkable neat.

Elina Svitolina def Wang Xinyu, 6-2, 6-1.

Swimming: 1,160 yards in 24 minutes in free (37’35” per mile), half with flip but all with soft push off. The 500 yards was in breaststrokes, 14 minutes, which is 49’34” per mile. After the update of my iPhone, the time per 100 yards changed to per mile, and I don’t know how to change it back…

Wimbledon 2024, 3rd round, Gauff 6-6, 6-0.

Sonay Kartal (2001-; 2019) fm London; dad was from Turkey. $271,233 with 7 ITF singles titles. She lost to Gauff in the 3rd round, her best showing. In comparison, Gauff who just won their match, (2004-; 2018) has prize winning of $14m.

我以前没见Kartal. 我首先想到的是唐氏综合症. 我确定她不是.

想起小学时的一个唐氏综合症小男孩.他和他的家人住在我姑姑家楼上.他的保姆和我们家很亲近,所以我们的关系还算近.他的保姆对他很好,很善良;很保护他.那时候的保姆一般都很善良能干.我没有见过差劲的保姆. 更不用说杀人放火的那种
顺便说一句,小男孩有一个大姐姐(和一个帅哥约会).她非常漂亮,比我们大院里的刘小庆 (土+肉乎乎的) 漂亮多了, 很有气质.

跑题了? 就是想起唐宝宝, 尤其是他的忠心耿耿的保姆

哈哈, 你说的是罗铮? 他现在的画儿可了得! 你居然看到罗莹谈恋爱? 搞错了吧? 姐姐离婚啦, 现在姐姐,妈妈,他生活在怀柔.

Swimming this month yards / minutes:

1. ¹³ 980 in 21
2. ¹¹  200
3. ⁰⁹ 1,680 in 39
4. ⁰⁸ 1,660 in 38; 37’35” per mile
5. ⁰⁷ 1,240 in 30
6. 5,960 yd in 142 min ↓
7. ⁰⁵ 1,180 in 25
8. ⁰⁴ 1,960 in 46
9. ⁰³ 1,440 in 36
10. ⁰² 1,380 in 35

Played with Gary, Lou and Pete: 2-5, 2-5, 3-2 on serve when we decided to quit. I’ve one double.

Did 360 yards of swim.

Rain came during our second set, interrupting but entertaining us with two rainbows.

The morning tennis has become increasingly hot, even when we start at 7:30am, the sun is already burning down on us. So we switching our play to the evening. One obvious thing is I feel loaded: with food and drinks throughout the day. But it’s cooler and more comfortable.

Hope and I lost to Barb Dave G 4-6, and we were on serve at the second set when the rain came.

The water temp at the pool was 85°. I only managed 200 yards, it was way too hot.

5-3, 4-5, 5-0. We came back from 0-3 in the first set. The second set went down to the wire and I missed a forehand, that lost the set.

… and more serves: looks very wrong

The second pair of mourning dove is having a baby … incubating, again.

Another couple 不会是同一对吧?

第二局拼到最后 … 是俺的失误[Lol]

Did 340 yards of swim.