#tennis related

[rafole]

Sinner being sweet

#jannik sinner #tennis related

[collegetennisoriginstory]

Spoiler for he Australian Open

Noooooo Meddy T.T

Sinner absolutely deserved it but goddamn heartbreaking. AO curse indeed. I thought it would be third time lucky 😭 A line in a news article I loved was "Medvedev Nadal'ed Zverev only to be Nadal'ed by Sinner."

*Nadal'ed = come from 2-0 down to win 3-2.

#tennis related #Australian open #AO 2024 #daniil medvedev

[allieebobo]

Nadal on losing his record of Grand Slam titles to current world number one Djokovic. (Article)

A.k.a I love him.

"I said it when I was the one with the most Slams, I said it when we were tied and I say it now that I am behind. I am not going to be the one who tries, through a personal struggle, to want to be what I am not," he said. "What is, is, and what is not, is not. I say this, I am very satisfied with everything that I have done."

#tennis related #nadal simp #Rafa Nadal #Djokovic #grand slam titles

[luderailing]

Tennis Feliks for @council-of-beetroot ‘s prupol week fanfic

#hetalia #art #my art #should I use the #polpruweek2023 #tag? there it is just in case #bc idk if this counts #all I can say though…me too Gilbert #hashtag relatable #hws poland #hws prussia #tennis is such a feliks sport…I lov drawing him in skirts

[betterbemeta]

I think something interesting about the star trek world is its combination of both replicator and holodeck technology. I understand these are literal 'plot devices' to explain the availability of food, materials, and the ability to visit locations for sci-fi premises that can't be found on an alien planet. However, they are worth thinking about in terms of how they change the world.

(Let's assume 'ideal' circumstances where we have a stable renewable non-polluting source of lots and lots of energy and aren't rationing it like on Voyager or something)

Replicators can use energy and raw materials to configure items, and presumably dis-configure items. While the potential for '3D printing' basically anything so long as its materials aren't too rare is really cool, it is also a near-perfect recycling machine. Beyond making sure your replicated dishes and cups don't infinitely pile up, that's SO IMPORTANT. Not only does that mean many items are 'temporary' that otherwise would be 'forever', you can instantly refresh the wear on many items without having to replace them and generate trash.

For example, tennis balls. It's currently really hard to recycle tennis balls, and serious players wear them out extremely quickly. Every serve you make after the first will be with a slightly worn, degraded tennis ball until you replace it, which generates trash. The production facilities to make all those tennis balls have to exist, they have to be shipped, the space to store them exists, the space to store their waste exists, the waste must be transported to a tennis ball recycling facility or a landfill...

but with replicators, you could play tennis without owning/paying a club to access a single tennis ball, without wasting a tennis ball.

And then there's the possibility of holodeck sports where you don't even need to make ANY material items. You could program the tennis ball to never run out. As long as you have the power to run it, maybe the most you'd need to 'own' is a tennis outfit. I am not sure if it's consistent that holodecks can 'dress you' or if you always must bring in costumes from the outside. And the costume itself could be replicated and then recycled!

There's a vast amount of stuff that we retain as personal property that just has to do with accessing activities or amenities. It's not really property that has emotional significance to us, but we still have attachments to it as its a facilitator of our active identity. Our dishes and cookware. Sports equipment. Certain kinds of clothing items. Some types of personal care items. Non-heirloom/generic holiday decorations. Stuff that is usually sacrificed first when we become homeless, when losing access to what they enable is more devastating than the items themselves.

If we could basically conjure and dismiss these things at-will, or access them on a temporary basis for free, we wouldn't need to own them or keep them around in our homes. No supply chain would be dedicated to them. Their waste would be completely eliminated. Ideas of 'what stuff I need to have as a person, to have a dignified life' would change completely.

It wouldn't surprise me if there were people in the star trek universe running around on earth with basically nothing we consider permanent physical property. Not because they're homeless and have no place to put them, and not because they're rich and their assets are liquid-- because the only reason to 'keep' mundane items, even something as complex as a communication device or computer, might be because they are emotionally important to you. And not everybody has 'stuff' like that at every time in their lives.

#star trek #ultimate recycling as part of total resource parity? #right now we MUST conserve materials in our world its like our biggest silent non health related bugbear #and many materials are not recyclable #the star trek universe is one without single use plastics #a lot of fears people have today about losing 'their property' have to do with inability to access secondary activities #they dont have to do with actually valuing ALL those tennis balls #it is 'stability' not 'property' that is in question in our real world

[a-swiss-and-a-spaniard]

Andrey shenanigans pt. 20763: Spanglish

#andrey rublev #daniil medvedev #tennis #atp finals #i can't stop laughing help #daniil really looked at andrey like 'are you okay???' #'you said BARBA (?!' #way too relatable tho

[steffigraf]

naomi osaka after winning r1 of indian wells (07.03.2024)

#naomi osaka #indian wells #tennis #*gifs #shes so relatable

[realpersonfacts]

daniil medvedev it is time for you to defend a title. I am no longer asking

#ur running out of new tournaments to win bro! #related: andrey rublev it is time for you to end sebastian korda’s life tomorrow this is not a request #tennis

[kangyeosaang]

kibum for MgLAB (2023)

#key #kibum #kim kibum #shinee #shineeedit #edits #shineenet #dailyshinee #kpopccc #ultkpopnetwork #malegroupsnet #kpopco #rosieblr #wabisarah #aleksbestie #higabi #lunanuggets #usersrin #tuseral #sry my lil brain has to gif everything tennis related skfhjksdf

[leclercskiesahead]

Helloooo this collage. Footy Charles. Unable to sit properly Charles. Workout Charles. His shorts and the high socks.

#still rocking that tennis player fit #propping his leg up…relatable #charles leclerc #scuderia ferrari #f1 #singapore 2023

[rafole]

Holger Rune’s greatest social media moments so far:

context: bad handshake with ruud

mewing king:

+ Has liked just about ALL of charles leclerc’s posts on instagram.

please feel free to add more (I feel like this is missing something amazing)

#holger rune #tennis #tennis related

[collegetennisoriginstory]

Excuse me this is the cutest post-doubles match win interview I have ever heard. (Hsieh Su-Wei and Elise Mertens at Indian Wells)

Taking NOTES.

++++++

When Mertens pointed out that Hsieh delivered one spectacular shot, the veteran cheekily replied, ���Only one?”

No, of course not, smiled Mertens.

Later, when Mertens was quizzed on why she turned to Hsieh as her partner for 2024, the Belgian spoke about how their games meshed and their previous success.

“It just naturally flowed a little bit throughout the matches that, okay, we're not starting from scratch, we already know each other,” said Mertens. “‘I know how you play, you know how I play.’”

Hsieh then piped in. “I thought because I'm cute, that's why you asked me,” she said.

“And she is very cute, too,” Mertens happily acknowledged.

#ct:os #not exactly if-related #but deffos inspiration for cute doubles vibes #tennis #hsieh su-wei #elise mertens #tennis doubles #Indian wells

[thewrongmoon]

something something Mike's closet being mostly full and organized, and Will's closet being mostly empty and messy. also the light being on in Mike's closet but not Will's. also the fact that they're both opened and framed partially inside of it

#not related but why does will have like 4 pairs of shoes #tennis shoes at that? #dont you have a shoe rack?? #also the famous one way arrow still pointing at mikes closet in this shot lmao #byler

[insomniphic]

Tennis pro!Stanleeeyyy

I don’t know, he just seems like the type to play 🤷‍♀️

#Narry is a commentator btw #he used to be a pro too but then heavily injured himself to the point of retiring #Stanley was a really big fan of his and decided to go pro too! #Stanley watches anything related about Narry #either it be his comments about his gameplay during a match #or his YouTube channel about his experiences as a tennis player XD #the stanley parable #tsp #stanley parable #tsp fanart #sketch #tsp stanley

[allieebobo]

What's your story, why are you so good at writing.. how did you start writing? HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH CT:OS HELP IM JUST OBSSESED

HAHAHAHA awww I am so flattered thank you, you're making me blush ☺️

CT:OS: Origin Story

Well! It's partially from experience, playing for a varsity sports team.

But most of all I wanted to write something fun and cosy and let the characters take centre stage. Found family and falling in love with your teammates/best friend from back home were things I really wanted to explore, and G's based on an experience I had as well.

Here's a longer interview I did with @interact-if for their awesome Asian/Pacific Islander month, I don't fully remember what I said in that but I think it should still stand haha 😅

Author: origin story below the cut :P

I can only answer the writing bit by saying I was one of those kids who carried a book everywhere and spent all my time in school or on rainy days or at family gatherings (or whenever I was corralled indoors, really) reading a book under my desk. Then I graduated to listening to audiobooks as an adult, on all my commutes and sometimes while working (some things never change).

I went through seminal periods of my life obsessed with certain authors and sometimes I think of those years not just by what I experienced but also the books I crossed paths with (e.g. the only reason why I wanted to study in the US at 17, 18 was because I had just come off my back-to-back obsessions with Steinbeck/Hemingway/Fitzgerald and Arthur Miller/Tennessee Williams and was convinced I could find freedom and solitude and the space I could never find in Singapore...)

Anyway, I've also been writing since I was a kid--typical kid stuff (comics and game books for friends--choose your own adventure stuff, RPG stuff) and then as a teen I wrote a couple of fanfics (still have em up on archiveofourown but they're all unfinished (bad track record oh dear).

But yeah, tldr; I rarely knew what I was doing when I was doing them--it always seemed to me like I was dabbling in a million different things. But on hindsight I guess they've really been connected dots in a constellation (in some sense), and I'm very glad to have found Interactive Fiction! I think it's an amazing medium/field and so many cool stories are being told here! :)

#ct:os #college tennis: origin story #interactive fiction #IF #about the author #not strictly-IF related

[steffigraf]

naomi osaka at the brisbane international (01.01.2024)

#naomi osaka #brisbane international #tennis #*gifs #this quote is so so so important to me like #i personally relate way too much #and im :((((