#Final Set Tennis

[yuwuta]

PLS PLS PLSSSSS keep talking about kids with olympic athletes! gojo and nanami pls pls pls i have to Know. everything u wrote about yuuta was already so so cute

(prev olympics au here)

the gojo twins are hilarious because your baby boy looks exactly like satoru, but has very little of his personality—it seems like the only things he inherited was satoru’s love for sweets and love for you. still, even though he’s a strong swimmer, he much prefers to relax in his floaties alongside you if you’re also in the pool, or chill by your side on a lounge chair, glasses too big for his face keeping the sun out of his eyes as he shares his smoothie with you, and asks to borrow your phone to take pictures of his sister and daddy in the pool. 

your baby girl on the other hand… she might have your face but she’s got satoru’s everything else—his competitive streak, his confidence, and definitely his mischievous nature. she’s the one who tiptoes into your bedroom at five in the morning, tapping at her daddy’s shoulders, and putting her little finger over his lip to shush him before he can wake you up; she’s always the one to convince satoru to take her swimming the backyard at the crack of dawn, and why by the time you and your baby boy wake up, she and satoru are already past warm up laps and swimming lessons and onto who can make the splashiest canonball competitions (she always wins because while her tiny body can endure a belly flop, satoru’s years of training physically doesn’t allow him to do it… and maybe because he’s not so competitive when it comes to his baby girl, he’ll always let her win). 

kento’s professional judo career honestly doesn’t last very long. after his first olympic games, you two start dating and he proposes just after he wins gold the second time he’s in the olympics; he does maybe two more years of national competitions while you’re pregnant, and decides that the intense training for the next two years in preparation of a third olympic competition isn’t worth missing time he could spend with you or your baby girl—plus, with all the money he’s made from competitions, winning gold medals, brand ambassadorships, commercials, and collaborations, he had enough money to provide for all of your for the rest of your lives. so, that’s what he does (his dream has always been to be a househusband, anyway...) his previous salaryman career comes in handy when deciding how to invest his money, how to buy a house, how to take care of his friends, how to set up a fund for your daughter, and an extra account or two… just incase more babies come along… 

by the time your baby girl is four, she’s already kento’s biggest fan. she loudly and proudly proclaims to everybody that her daddy was basically superman and won all the shiny trophies and medals in the house from when he was being a superhero. if anyone recognizes kento when they’re out together, she always confirms their suspicions, proudly boasting, “yeah kento is my daddy! he’s a winner!” it always makes kento’s heart swell to hear her praise. he doesn’t compete professionally anymore, but he does train from time to time, and has taken on a few mentees, and your daughter LOVES to watch him coach/train. she’s got her own uniform that she always puts on whenever they go to the gym together, and gets so excited when kento or ino or yuuji pretend to spar with her. 

she’s honestly kento’s mini figure. she’s respectful and reserved, but strong and knows when to fight and how to use her voice. there’s a time when he gets a call from her school saying that she got in a fight, the principal frames it as your daughter needlessly pushing around an older kid, but your daughter is certain in her words when she tells her dad that it was because the kid was being mean to the younger kids, and to her. kento doesn’t say a word to the teachers—doesn’t even fight them sending her home early for the day, because he’s happy to scoop her up and take her out for ice cream and tell her that he’s proud of her.

[formulaocean]

“You have to find the joy in suffering”

Carlos Alcaraz describing all of us watching that match and dropping that all of his hardest matches have been and will be against Jannik 😭🥹

[bluespring864]

Barbora Krejčíková ponders what could have been after losing set 2 vs. Iga Świątek at the ATP Finals 2024 from 3-0 up

[schumi-nadal]

Arthus Fils | Japan Open 2024 🇯🇵

En finale (x2)! 🤩🇫🇷

[mortiflyer]

Was Casper charging up these past few weeks…😭

[alcarenka]

CARLITOS ALCARAZ TO THE ROLAND GARROS FINAAAAAAAAAL OH MY FCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOD

[muirneach]

hey. carlos has never lost when two sets up

[mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora]

See you at Wimbledon

[fritzes]

genuine question, how does stefanos tsitsipas function. is he okay

[nancywheeeler]

i never doubted casper for a second btw

[i-regret-a-lot]

carlitos te pido un doble bagel por favor hazlo por casper y yo 🙏

[greyworld10]

That escalated quickly

[bluespring864]

"as you say, my serve let me down... or I let my serve down"

tennis analysis with Daniil Medvedev

[wimbledon2008]

this man is evil and has removed literal years from my lifespan

[sheltoner]

tbh i think this is rly terrible for me bc i wasn’t paying attention to tennis at all when karo was making the rg final, but i remember naomi in 2020 and 2021 and the masks that she would wear in her on court interviews and she just means so much to me and im gonna cry myself to sleep

[code-violation]

It's come to my attention that some of you only recently found out about the 2010 Isner-Mahut match, and I need to make sure you're all aware of Xan Brooks' Guardian liveblog from day 2 (!) of that match. The first mention of Isner and Mahut is at 2.45pm and it starts to get weird at 4.05pm.

A Classic.