It may be the off-season for tennis, but hey, there's still regalia to wave and banners to wear! Wait...
As is traditional, I'll leave this one as a guessing game for you, but I think if you've been following any of the OT banter around here, the football allegiances will lead you to guess the identities of these two lovely Tribe members very quickly indeed. Not to mention that many of you will just know what they look like already. Thanks for sending the photo!
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It's been a busy time for me, so I haven't dug up any tennis tidbits for you this week. I do hear that there's a great tennis match scene in Han Ong's novel The Disinherited, so I may check that out sometime soon. For all that the match-fixing articles have extolled the mano a mano and gladiatorial qualities of tennis, it doesn't seem to have inspired a whole lot of great novels.
I do, however, recall reading a ridiculous teen novel about tennis when visiting my cousin in Toronto many years ago. It was in one of those teen romance series called Sweet Dreams or something awful like that, and if I'm right, a google search (or blackle, if you're conserving energy) tells me that it's called Love Match. The narrator and heroine was a teenage tennis player who was so good that her high school put her onto the boys' tennis team. Naturally, she develops a huge crush on the star boy player, who thinks no girl belongs on the team. She proves him wrong by whipping his butt in singles, and incidentally starts wearing lip gloss and less baggy t-shirts until he notices that she's a real girl and falls for her as well.
This is clearly a pretty dated novel for many reasons. But no matter how good a girl tennis player was, I can't imagine her ever being put on the boys' team unless there was no girls' team at her school. Put with the boys to train, maybe; I bet even that would cause a lot of resentment. Anyone ever encountered a situation like this?
Thoughts? There ought to be a new YA tennis romance. How about one about Roger and Mirka meeting at the Sydney Olympics? That's not bad.
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-Heidi