Someone's playing tennis today apparently
Monday, September 8th, 2008 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanNow I'm not particularly interested in tennis, it's just another of the more dreadful spectator sports. I can see that there may be fun to had playing it: not for me to be sure: I have the hand-eye coordination of a sloe worm and the gut of a blue whale, but I can see that there might be fun there for someone of a more athletic bent and particularly, it looks like a game where you can have fun without being terribly good (or goodly terrible) at it.
That said, I have a passing interest in tonight's (UK time) US Open match up between Briton Andy Murray and World Number Two, Swiss Roger Federer. The British media of course, are playing up the match, as this is the latest in a string of finals where we can have the First British male champion in a Grand Slam tournament since Fred Perry in 1936. I suspect that this time tomorrow we will still be waiting for the first British male champion in a Grand Slam tournament since Fred Perry in 1936. The fun then, will be in seeing how the technique and mental resilience of Scotsman Murray is compared with the Swiss Federer.
You probably have to be from the UK to understand the point of that last sentence.
That said, I have a passing interest in tonight's (UK time) US Open match up between Briton Andy Murray and World Number Two, Swiss Roger Federer. The British media of course, are playing up the match, as this is the latest in a string of finals where we can have the First British male champion in a Grand Slam tournament since Fred Perry in 1936. I suspect that this time tomorrow we will still be waiting for the first British male champion in a Grand Slam tournament since Fred Perry in 1936. The fun then, will be in seeing how the technique and mental resilience of Scotsman Murray is compared with the Swiss Federer.
You probably have to be from the UK to understand the point of that last sentence.
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Date: 2008-09-08 02:26 pm (UTC)Yawnnnnnnnn sleepy just thinking about it....
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Date: 2008-09-08 02:34 pm (UTC)I can usually get into most sports as a spectator but baseball I just don't get the point of.
So chap throws a ball, the other chap swings a bat and misses, this seems to repeated several times then they swap sides and do it all again.
And the commentators don't help by constantly realing off reams of statisticle information until my brain really does seem to start to run from my ears.
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Date: 2008-09-08 02:43 pm (UTC)That description sounds dangerously close to tennis.
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Date: 2008-09-08 03:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-08 02:44 pm (UTC)Poker isn't a sport. : )
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Date: 2008-09-08 02:56 pm (UTC)Too late to add Football ?....
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Date: 2008-09-08 03:28 pm (UTC)I actually quite like football, I just wish it didn't dominate the media so much.