After watching the match this afternoon, just thought I would drop round the back of the Centre Court and say hello to everyone…
Left to right: Bjorn Borg, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer and Rod Laver.
I was one of the first wave feminists in the 60s who demanded equality, burnt their bras (in my case, purely metaphorically, not with my boobs), and yet I really cannot support the equal pay structure at Wimbledon. View the lack lustre, charmless, grunting and boring Ladies Final with what we saw today. Over four hours of superb tennis and even if I now find The Fed with his silly clothes a bit irritating, there is no denying this man is a supreme champion and thoroughly deserved his win. Poor Andy Roddick though, I was rooting for him and felt so bad for him at the end.
So that is it for another year. The papers have said that the UK is only interested in tennis during Wimbledon fortnight, but we might like it a bit more if all the majors and any others that are interesting, were not in the sole ownership of Sky or if the BBC bucked its ideas up a bit and made sure we had a bit more coverage of British tennis as well. Yes, that might be pretty unexciting to start off with, but would give the players more exposure and might make them try a bit harder.
OK enough, better not start.
AND now for something completely different. Click on this link and cop a load of this and my thanks to Julie on my reading group for sending this to us all. Only knowing Dominic West from The Wire (which I have refrained from raving about up to now but will soon) and with an American accent, this is terrific.
I was also going to write about my opera visit last night but it was so STUPENDOUS and wonderful that I am saving it up for tomorrow.
Au reservoir.
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