monoceros blogsFirst off, here are my links to tennis:
1. I'm married to a tennis nut who, as a secondary school student, hit the balls so hard they flew from the school courts to the main road.
2. I'm related to a tennis nut who bought my husband a tennis bag and who goes with my husband to tennis shops regularly. (This is my brother.)
3. My parents watch major tennis tournaments religiously. (Unless they're traveling - they are in Switzerland now - and then they get my brother to record matches for them.) (Also, my mother used to play tennis, and as she got older, she picked up pickle ball, which is a sort of indoor tennis for older folks.)
4. One of my friends from junior college, and who helped at my wedding, is a terrific tennis player, and is a regular guest in my brother's and husband's tennis group.
5. This tennis group is interestingly made up of our friends who helped at our wedding - actually my brother's friends who ushered, sang in the choir, and guarded the rented decorations. I suppose after the wedding was over last July, they discovered something else to enthuse about - tennis. My brother and Lin Kiat now book courts several times a week and the whole group visits a particular shop in Queensway to buy new rackets or to have them strung or to buy tennis-related birthday gifts for each other.
Since my return to Singapore, I've been surrounded by tennis fever. So when my brother forwards me a link to a movie with a tennis theme, I feel obliged to watch the trailer.
And it's a good one! Paul Bettany stars as a fading once-top-ranked tennis star from the UK. Just as he's about to retire, he meets a young tennis player who's on a winning streak and she shows him what it's all about. Wimbledon comes from the makers of Notting Hill and Bridget Jones' Diary (you'll learn this too, if you watch the trailer) so it ought to be funny British romantic comedy.
I bet the tennis folks will be watching this to see what rackets the players are using, so I suggested that they do a group outing this September when the movie opens.
The trailer can be found here.
You forgot to mention that you're being dragged into the whole tennis fever too... GO BABOLAT!
Posted by: LK at June 10, 2004 10:39 AMDun forget that there is Kirsten Dunst! i think..... but Paul Bettany is quite an actor.. watched Dogville yet?
Posted by: airhole at June 10, 2004 11:04 PMha ha! I just chose not to mention her name, Tze-Wei! =)
Posted by: V Heng at June 11, 2004 12:48 AMHaha.... tennis fever huh?? I play it 3 times a week now with ladies who were once strangers. We met at the club. One nurse who's typically off on my odd off-days (my first tennis partner), a european lady who whacks the balls so hard I can never win and the last lady plays better than me, is probably fitter than me and also 3 times older than me :)
You can give me some tips when I am home :)
Bunny! when are you returning?! i am hopeless in tennis! u can play with me and feel great about yourself! :C) heee
Posted by: tiggie at June 11, 2004 6:37 AMfun trailer! thanks for sharing!
Posted by: tiggie at June 13, 2004 9:03 AMBunny...I'll have no tips for you! I'm not a tennis player! Seems more that i'll have to get tips from you. Playing so regularly, you must be pretty good!
Posted by: V Heng at June 13, 2004 9:27 PMHa! Ha! I am certainly glad you are joining the "tennis club"! You'll love the game no doubt about it!
Posted by: irene heng at June 16, 2004 12:38 AM