sportsgame:tennis

Serena Williams scores new rules for the tennis court
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The Women’s Tennis Association put out a statement this week saying that wearing leggings and compression shorts without shorts or a skirt over them is totally acceptable. It turns out there was never a rule against it. And Myles says forget the fashion statement. It just makes sense.

The Women’s Tennis Association updated another rule this week. And Myles says it’s about something more important than dress code. It has to do with players keeping their rankings after maternity leave.

“So, now what they’ve done is they’ve just given the players a longer period of time in which they can use that ranking to get themselves back to where they were,” said Myles. In other words, they don’t have to start at the bottom.

This change was also inspired by Williams. She was ranked No. 1 when she went on maternity leave. When she came back eight months later, she’d lost her ranking. And that affects when, where and who you play in tournaments.

Myles says the old rules basically punished women for having children.

#femme #congé_maternité #dress_code #tennis

The serve | Thinkpiece | Architectural Review
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The Williams sisters’ feminist space of possibility 23m by 8m long

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Aligning the feet

On 9 July 2016, my little sister’s birthday: Serena Williams won the Wimbledon final, gaining her 22nd grand slam title. The semi-final had seen a showdown between Serena and her sister Venus, one reminiscent of the sibling rivalry which had defined the previous decade: on this court they had met – in 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2009. It was a reminder of the 27 times in total that Venus and Serena have met each other at the final stages of the world’s major tennis tournaments. Since 1995, I had seen these two sisters grow up in the space of the tennis court and claim it as their own.

Holding the ball with fingers in formation

Three months earlier, Beyoncé had released her Lemonade album. Fourth song into the album, between ‘Apathy’ and ‘Emptiness’, Serena Williams had appeared on my screen again, this time taking ownership of a different space; the domestic and the colonial. In ‘Sorry’, Serena strides and grinds through a Louisiana creole plantation house, eventually meeting Beyoncé lounging on a throne in the living room. Beyoncé appears to take back and negotiate the space of her creole ancestors, and darker-skinned Serena Williams is leading the way. ‘I ain’t sorry! I ain’t sorry!’ goes the track: unapologetic and euphoric.

#espace #territore #féminisme #tennis #soeurs_williams

The Paradox of Doping in Mountain Climbing - Issue 39: Sport
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We’re usually comfortable deciding whether or not an athlete is doping. Lance Armstrong was definitely doping by using erythropoietin. Tennis player Novak Djokovic, on the other hand, was definitely not doping when he slept in an egg-shaped barometric chamber. We tell one from the other by a kind of cultural gestalt, sorting out those who dope and those who don’t. Then we take that one step farther and reason: Those who don’t, compete cleanly—those that do, cheat. But what if a substance is both performance-enhancing and a benefit to an athlete’s health? What if that substance is oxygen?Not doping: Some athletes use a barometric chamber like this one to help prepare for competition. Despite its direct effect on their physiology, it is not banned or regulated.Daniella Zalcman The top of (...)

The Secret Language of Tennis Champions - Issue 39 : Sport
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It’s a warm summer afternoon in New York City in 2013, and Bob and Mike Bryan are hitting the fuzzy covers off tennis balls, their looping forehands and backhands mirror images of one another. The identical twins are warming up for the U.S. Open on one of the trademark blue courts in the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Playing singles against each other, Bob hits a soft volley. Mike returns it with a hard shot at Bob’s head and calls out, “Velveeta.” Cheesy shot. The Bryans take their customary position beside each other and face their coach David Macpherson and practice partner Georgy Chekhov. Although Bob is two inches taller and a leftie, the lanky, brown-eyed Bryans appear to be clones of one another. They glide across the court, perfectly in sync. A low ball sent down the (...)

File under : #Jürgen_Klopp says it …
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If #Barcelona's team of the last four years were the first one that I saw play when I was four years of age ... with their serenity, winning 5-0, 6-0 … I would have played tennis. Sorry, that is not enough for me. What I love is that there are some things you can do in football to allow each team to win most of the matches

#Football_is_a_Country #SPORT #Arsene_Wenger #Borussia_Dortmund #Pierre-Emerick_Aubameyang

The Secret Language of Tennis Champions - Issue 6 : Secret Codes
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It’s a warm summer afternoon in New York City, and Bob and Mike Bryan are hitting the fuzzy covers off tennis balls, their looping forehands and backhands mirror images of one another. The identical twins are warming up for the U.S. Open on one of the trademark blue courts in Arthur Ashe Stadium. Playing singles against each other, Bob hits a soft volley. Mike returns it with a hard shot at Bob’s head and calls out, “Velveeta.” Cheesy shot. The Bryans take their customary position beside each (...)

“People are going to know who #Bob_Hewitt is, how sick he is.”
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The most recent episode of the US cable channel HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” aired a story about a group of women who accuse the South African #tennis player and commentator Bob Hewitt of sexually abusing them when they were children. Hewitt was their tennis coach at the time. One of them, #Twiggy_Tolken, […]

#SPORT #Boston_Globe #South_Africa