Looked up for tokito's videos, and somehow, I feel like he can actually complete his calendar slam this year, including a gold medal at the paralympics. He started the year well, and his form was great as well. Can't wait to see him achieve more and more great things this year.
WOW. The wheelchair tennis final at Roland Garros was SUPERB. Caught it by chance, but now I have a total tennis crush on Tokito Oda. (It hadn’t happen to me since Juan Carlos Ferrero yeeeears ago, when I used to curse exams for happening at the same time as RG……) This kid is a wonder.
╰┈➤ Henry Antrim, James Bonde, Fred Pollock, Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, Miss Hudson, John H. Watson, William James Moriarty, Albert James Moriarty, Louis James Moriarty, Miss Moneypenny, Sebastian Moran, Von Herder, Mary Watson.
╰┈➤ Sebastian Michaelis, Bardroy, Finnian, Mey-Rin, Snake, Vincent Phantomhive, Rachel Phantomhive, Francis Midford, Edward Midford, Paula, Charles Grey, Charles Phipps, Grelle, William T. Spears, Ronald Knox, Undertaker, Angelina Dalles [Madam Red], Lau, Beast, Dagger, Joker, “Prince” Soma Asman Kadar, Agni, Aleister Chamber, Ran-Mao, Claude Faustus, Hannah Annafellows, Angela Blanc, Ash Landers.
These are characters that I have thoughts about, but not necessarily in a romantic selfshipping context. I’m also more than willing to talk about the Lovers in the same context as these characters. I’m also willing to talk about other characters not listed! These just happen to be my faves 🩶
Constantly in development—for some of these media, I picked out characters off of my memory alone, so they’re definitely incomplete. Some of them I’m also actively engaged with/plan on revisiting, so they are also incomplete.
Rotterdam MWS F: Alfie Hewett [1] def. Joachim Gerard [4] 6-2, 6-3 Match Recap
Joachim Gerard’s point to *0-0 40-ad (latest break point, top left); Alfie Hewett’s point to break back 1-1 (top right), to 2-1* 0-30 (middle left), and to 4-1* 15-40 (middle right); Joachim Gerard’s point to *5-1 0-30 (bottom left), and Alfie Hewett’s point to take the first set 6-2 (bottom right) (📸 Rotterdam’s official YouTube channel)
Closing the Men’s Singles sector in Rotterdam for the wheelchair tournament was the match between first seed Alfie Hewett, who stunned his compatriot and third seed Gordon Reid 6-0, 6-4 in the semifinals, and fourth seed Joachim Gerard, who defeated second seed Martin de la Puente 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 afterward in the same round. This match turned out to have a topsy-turvy start, but the firmer (and more aggressive) one would prevail by the end of the match.
Alfie seemed to have a nervy start once he faced J. Gerard's forehand return aces, two of them created and converted his latest break point to 1-0 for the early break. The British first seed then responded with a long forehand response to J. Gerard's forehand error to break back right after a return ace (1-1), followed by a service game hold to 2-1. Since then, Alfie's game became more solid, firing a forehand winner to set himself two points ahead moments before J. Gerard's double-fault caused the break to 3-1. Alfie then consolidated his position to 4-1.
Interestingly, Alfie should have served for the first set breadstick after his forehand winner paved the way before the double-break lead (5-1). However, J. Gerard's groundstrokes might have different ideas, where a backhand finish secured his lead. Even though Alfie responded with a backhand winner to minimize the gap, another unforced error did not help for him to be broken 5-2. The World No. 2 then took it personally by breaking for the set 6-2 thanks to his forehand winner while taking advantage on J. Gerard's erratic showing from the baseline.
Joachim Gerard’s point to *1-1 40-ad (top left); Alfie Hewett’s point to 1-2* 0-40 (top right), to 4-3* 0-15 (middle), and to take the second set 6-3 (📸 🎥 Rotterdam’s official YouTube channel)
Just like the first set, the setup of the second set was also a rollercoaster. After two consecutive holds, J. Gerard started to assert his aggression from his forehand down-the-line winner to set up his break point, which was saved by Alfie, but his forehand return ace secured his latest break point before the fourth seed broke early to 2-1. However, Alfie started to dig deep once again, with his forehand winner generating his break point before outhitting J. Gerard from the baseline to break back 2-2, consolidating it with a hold to 3-2 to show the play was level again. Two straight holds later, Alfie started to appear more aggressive, where his forehand down-the-line winner set himself 2 points apart from J. Gerard. Ultimately, Alfie broke to 5-3 after J. Gerard's forehand error to the former's preceding forehand, and successfully served for the second set at 6-3 despite having to face 2 break points while trying to serve it out.
This marked Alfie's second wheelchair Tour singles title of the year after the Victorian Wheelchair Open last January (d. Martin de la Puente), becoming the runner-up against Tokito Oda in the other two tournaments. Mindblowingly, all J. Gerard's loses, including the runner-up here, came after being defeated by Alfie in all the tournaments he partook, which included the semifinals both in the Victorian Wheelchair Open, Melbourne Wheelchair Open, and the Australian Open itself. Likely a pigeon in the making for the year?
Bu seneki Wimbledon'da ilklere imza atan iki şampiyon ismin bıraktıkları izlere şahitlik ettik. Geri dönüp bakınca özel olarak vurgulanacak bir sene olacak şüphesiz. Kapanışı yaparken tüm şampiyonları sıralama zamanı. Hepsine bolca tebrikler…
-Şampiyonlar-
Tek Erkekler: Carlos Alcaraz
Tek Kadınlar: Marketa Vondrousova
Çift Erkekler: Wesley Koolhof/Neal Skupski
Çift Kadınlar: Hsieh Su-wei/Barbora Strycova
Karışık Çiftler: Mate Pavic/Lyudmyla Kichenok
Tekerlekli Sandalye Tek Erkekler: Tokito Oda
Tekerlekli Sandalye Tek Kadınlar: Diede de Groot
Tekerlekli Sandalye Kuad Tekler: Niels Vink
Tekerlekli Sandalye Çift Erkekler: Alfie Hewett/Gordon Reid
Tekerlekli Sandalye Çift Kadınlar: Diede de Groot/Jiske Griffioen
Tekerlekli Sandalye Kuad Çiftler: Sam Schröder/Niels Vink
Tek Oğlanlar: Henry Searle
Tek Kızlar: Clervie Ngounoue
Çift Oğlanlar: Jakub Filip/Gabriele Vulpitta
Çift Kızlar: Alena Kovackova/Laura Samsonova
U14 Tek Oğlanlar: Mark Ceban
U14 Tek Kızlar: Luna Vujovic
Davetli Çift Erkekler: Bob Bryan/Mike Bryran
Davetli Çift Kadınlar: Kim Clijsters/Martina Hingis
Davetli Karışık Çiftler: Nenad Zimonjic/Rennae Stubbs
Tennis: Japan's Oda, 17, wins Wimbledon wheelchair title
AFP, Sunday 16 Jul 2023
Japanese teenager Tokito Oda made history by winning the Wimbledon wheelchair title with a commanding 6-4, 6-2 victory against Alfie Hewett on Sunday.
Japan s Tokito Oda with the Wimbledon wheelchair singles trophy (AFP)
Aged 17 years and 69 days, Oda is the youngest man to win a Wimbledon singles title in any discipline.
He is also the youngest player to win a…
Wimbledon 2023: Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid win wheelchair doubles title
Venue: All England Club Dates: 3-16 July
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Great Britain’s Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid won their fifth Wimbledon men’s wheelchair doubles title together, beating Japan’s Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda in a thrilling final.
The top seeds came…
Australian Open: Alfie Hewett wins his maiden wheelchair singles title in Melbourne to add to his doubles success | Tennis News
Top seed Alfie Hewett finally lifts his maiden Australian Open men’s wheelchair singles title, defeating 16-year-old Tokito Oda of Japan in Saturday’s final I Hewett had lost in the final at Melbourne Park for the last two years but made it third time lucky
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Hello! First of all, I apologize in advance if this has been asked before and if I miss the answer 🙏🏻 In Tanjiro's time, are twins still considered taboo? If so, was it also part of the reason that Mui's family live far from other people? I read another manga that takes place in two different times. One is the era when Nobunaga Oda lives and one is when samurais are banned (I forgot the names sorry^^) and twins are said to bring bad lucks so I want to know how is it in Taisho?
Hey there! No worries about that, if I get asked something with similar content I usually answer with a link to a previous response, it's easy to miss stuff or for things to get buried. ^^
As for twins being taboo, a huge reason for this was exactly the issue in Yoriichi and Michikatsu's case in the Sengoku era*: inheritance disputes. This was especially the case among the upper class who had a lot at stake, and sadly, killing one of them was fairly common. It was also common to send one away to be raised by a different family, or even as we see in Yoriichi's case, to be sent to a temple to be a monk instead, giving up his claim to worldly matters.
*Oda Nobunaga came around the end of this era. I suspect Yoriichi predated him by a while, but the KnY timeline is not clear enough to say for sure.
A couple other reasons it was considered taboo was that it was seen as monstrous, giving birth to multiples is something only beasts do. Humans are obviously only supposed to give birth to one at a time, they thought, so sometimes having multiples would be called a "dog's birth." A somewhat later idea was that boy and girl twins were lovers who committed suicide together, which was a huge offense in Edo period society (but a wildly popular theme in theater and literature). Conversely, though, in some parts of Japan boy & girl twins were seen as reincarnated married couples (much more wholesome), and dogs were associated with good luck in safe birth because they usually safely gave birth to so many puppies. Also as a counterpoint, triplets might at times had been seen as auspicious, since it was even more of an anomaly than twins and three just tends to be a more favored in a lot of societies around the world, doesn't it?
The Meiji period (just after Edo, when the samurai and class-based model was tossed out in favor of Western style modernization), right between Edo and Taisho, was a time of massive change, and most of the taboo surrounding twins was tossed out at this time. There was encouragement throughout the Meiji and Taisho periods to have larger families, so this changed to seeing twins as more felicitous. It wasn't an immediate change, though, in some high class cases the twins would be raised with equal care, but the fact that they were twins would be kept a secret outside the family!
The Tokito twins would have been born in late Meiji, when there wasn't really anything to worry about. ^_^ And since their clan had fallen poor by then anyway, meh, not as much to hold a dispute about with inheritance.
Also interesting, Ubuyashiki Amane had quintuplets (as confirmed in the second fanbook, I had always thought it was a set of twins, a single baby, and then another set of twins, so I was pretty surprised by that!). (Meiji) Rumor has it that those who attended the birth had never seen this before and they were very moved. ^.^ Good for you, Amane! You had some good dog vibes on your side.