#tennis on the road

[joyousfart]

batch of requests C:

[dramaticsigh]

I’m going to tell my kids this is the Challengers movie

[formulaheart]

one of my all time favorite things about F1 that really applies to all sports in general is affectionate sportsmanship !! everybody is fighting for a title or a trophy or respect on their name and everything else you win but at the very end of the day most of the time they're just glad to be competing and love the people they've gotten to know along the way, it's not life or death anymore.

it's fiercely hugging the person who beat you at the end of a hard fought race because it was such an exciting thing to be a part of. it's jokingly shit talking a competitor but going off the instant anybody else says anything about them. it's jumping out of your car in a race that hasn't stopped yet to physically try to hold a car off a driver who is crashed and unconscious. it's saying hi to your family away from home every week and coincidentally it's your teammates partner and kids. it's coaches shaking hands and smiling and third place giving first a hand to the top of the podium. it's missing your greatest rival when they're away and waiting to congratulate them when they win because somewhere along the line of being enemies for 10 years that turned into a great friendship. it's giving up a win to your teammate against team orders when earlier they had to give up a win for you because of team orders. it's a pat on the back to the rookie. it's a compliment to the press about a move made against you. its pit crews for drivers that won 1st and 2nd running and celebrating with each other. it's hugging despite the helmets, lanelines, bikes, nets, padding, railing, rapiers, angry fans and egos

if you feel it drop your favorite affectionate sportsmanship moments in the tags or wherever, i'm in a mood

[ttumblllrr]

[mortiflyer]

usually when you see players on the full stretch ten feet behind the baseline you are resigned to the fact that they will lose the point but if you are a jannik sinner or coco gauff enjoyer you begin to relax because you know theyve just started their engines

[a-swiss-and-a-spaniard]

via lavercup stories

[bluespring864]

beloved idiot <3

[silluuuu]

(actually!) six sentence sunday~

ayy, thank u to @chickycherrycola for the tag! actually six sentences today! getting emotional in this upcoming chapter of one for the road:

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Maka lies on the floor of the old gym, throwing tennis balls at the ceiling.

As the name suggests, the old gym is the one that nobody uses anymore - the one that smells of mothballs, stale sweat, and probably some lingering asbestos, but whatever. It feels like she can get angry here, can scream into the abyss and let the sound bounce its way around her in a way she can sink into, can get lost in - a place where she's allowed to be lonely.

It’s the only place she can think of to be right now. Because she’s supposed to be in L.A., and instead she’s here, staring at the ceiling, pretending that it’s the fluorescents and not sadness ridding her eyes of saline.

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tagging @toweroftunes and @blackbloodteeth and anyone else who's keen!!

[ratatatastic]

[muirneach]

many reasons why it is ultimately good that i decided to go to [regular university] and not [weird trades slash environment college in middle of nowhere] BUT the college had a hockey rink (again small town bumfuck ontario, nothin better to do). i could have had it all there. now what i have to go to a normal rink to learn to play hockey??

[teddy-bear-naps-and-random-snaps]

[mariamagdalenaposting]

Why does (nearly) every sport have a "Wimbledon". Meaning a tournament that is more important than the world championship or in close contention with it. Genuinely curious.

[sportsallover]

Can you believe I could be watching some sports event, and instead I have to work

[quoththemaiden]

I feel like I don't know how to be a niche fan on Web 2.0. Like seriously, where would I go to find Prince of Tennis musicals later than Rokkakumyu? Where are the torrent sites that somehow never gave me a virus or called the FBI down on me? Does that kind of thing still exist or are they gone forever?

Thankfully I found the DVDs I'd burned years ago and they're mostly not corrupted, so I have Dream Live 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, Fudomine, St. Rudolph, side Yamabuki, Hyoutei, and Rokkaku (in a baffling mix of raws and different languages' subs), so that's a pretty good collection. Still, it's a little sad to think that my proficiency has decreased so much I wouldn't have any idea where to go for that.

[risingsunresistance]

i'm either losing my mind and forgot what tumblr looks like or they changed the way the activity page looks AGAIN (on desktop idk what's happening on mobile)

[darkdoelette]

Green and white tennis court