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What to do when your fave is losing!

Petra loses in AO Jan2021
Petra loses in AO Jan2021
Glum Petra in Melbourne

Every tennis fan gets there, no player, and I mean NO PLAYER, will win forever. Dealing with losses is part of sport. But there are losses that hurt more and especially as a player gets older.

2021 and 2022 have not been great years for Petra Kvitova. Her surge to the Doha title in 2021 was glorious but there was precious little else to cheer, and the first round, day one defeat by Sloane Stephens at Wimbledon was a real low point. 2022 has been similarly dismal for us Petra fans with losses to low ranked players and lifeless performances. It can be tough to stay positive when getting bagelled by Begu!

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On Becoming a Krejcikova stan…

A reflection from June 2021

Barbora Krejcikova – Roland Garros 2021

For me, I always like to have a favourite tennis player. Someone above all others I root for, feel exhilarated when they win and crushed when they lose. My first tennis crush was Steffi Graf. I can still remember how genuinely upset I was when she lost to Lori McNeil in round 1 of Wimbledon 1993. Justine Henin was my next favourite and the first I, as an adult, put up a picture on my wall. A rather beautiful photo of her stylish one handed backhand. Henin’s premature retirement in 2009 was like being dumped out of the blue! What…? Erm, I don’t get it… WHY!? I briefly dipped into being an Elena Dementieva fan which might have prepared me for the ups and downs to come for my devotion to my One True Tennis Love, the wonderful Petra Kvitova. I think it was her Wimbledon 2011 run that hooked me, and seeing that beautiful flowing game. Who could have known the roller coaster ride that was to come!

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Women’s Tennis Rocks!

I love women’s tennis and especially the Czech player Petra Kvitova. This blog will focus largely on Petra but also some of the other WTA players I like. Krejcikova, Siniakova, Ostapenko, Rybakina, Halep, Kerber, and many many more! I am a pretty rabid tennis fan – and almost exclusively women’s tennis. However, none of my friends and family quite share my love. You tell people you’re a tennis fan and they assume you mean Federer, Nadal or Andy Murray. Maybe Serena at a push!

For me, women’s tennis is more exciting to watch as I think there is more of a mystery! Men’s tennis is very serve dominated and also physical. Plus there are a lot of players who seem like very… problematic men!

Anyway, this page will be my tennis diary so if you come across it, say hi and check out my posts in the links below.