Tennis and All That

I'm moved to write a post on finding out that Conchita Martinez has tested positive in Qatar and has been moved to quarantine in a hospital. 😪 My thoughts and best wishes are with her. Can't wait for her to return to the tournament to continue coaching Muguruza.  Tennis 2020 did see 2 Grand Slams after tour return: US Open August 31-13 September and Roland Garros 27 September-11 October. (AO took place as normal despite the forest fire crisis) The only thing I remember about the US Open is the kerfuffle over Djokovic accidentally striking a lines woman when he hit a ball nonchalantly to the back of the court when going to sit down. He was perfectly calm and not looking at where he had struck the ball because he didn't hit it hard. It was just a normal returning of the ball to the back of the court. I watched the video a few times and he seemed concerned that he had inadvertently caused this mishap. Therefore, defaulting him, taking away all his points thus far in the tourn...

Girls and Women in Sports Day  This week (1st week of February) is Girls and Women in Sports Day (in the USA). Girls and women means ALL who identify as girls and women, trans and intersex included!  We can go around saying- oh yes, we must get girls and women into sport, get them active, all they need is a pep talk and a bit of encouragement and all will be well. We'll have lots of girls and women in s port soon, they'll be no holding them back! But this is a rather dispassionate and uninvolved take on the issue. So what I'm going to do here is my personal angle on it, my personal experience as a sporty woman who doesn't have family who have worked in the Sports world.  I was always physically active, literally from a few months old, whether I was jumping up and down on my mother's lap with her holding my hands or whether I was playing my percussion instruments on the sofa. Dancing and walking came at practically at the same time and by 1 & 1/2 I'd already ...