Geplaatst door
The Rev. All Green
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9:02 PM
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result
Very bad start to the week with the Toy's All Green Button moving me from a nice green position to a not so nice red one, but managed to turn it around at least.
Geplaatst door
The Rev. All Green
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8:58 PM
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Malisse
Never thought I'd live to see the day again, but take a look at this. Xavier Malisse, one of the biggest underachievers of his generation, beats the number 3 of the world. Well done, X-man.
(And just my luck that this match was moved from Center Court to a court with no cameras.)
Apparently the Aegon Classic in Birmingham expected a long hot summer this year. But instead, it rained quite a bit and they weren't prepared.
...The problem was that the ground staff had been lumbered with the same covers that they used last year, even though the playing area has been expanded by at least a yard at each end...
...problems were further compounded by a broken-down water clearing device, which reduced the Priory Club to handing out towels and asking the staff to jump up and down on them. In an era when Wimbledon has a retractable roof, this felt like something from the stone age...
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man my son!
—Rudyard Kipling