The point when Muguruza turned it, Yankee pen & Roger’s shot . . .
Sometimes the moment that decides everything in tennis doesn’t come in the final set.
In the women’s final at Wimbledon on Saturday, it came with
serving at 1540 and 4-5 in the first set,
holding two set points against her.
Muguruza’s nervous shot until then had been her forehand. Not now. She stood back on the baseline and slugged it out with Venus, what
used to call Big Babe Tennis. Won the point. Won the game. Won the set. Never lost another game at Wimbledon 2017.
Now she has a French and a Wimbledon, at the age of 23.
She’s the next thing in women’s tennis.
Venus lost an old against young match in her last great shot at Wimbledon the way did when he was 39, and
was 21, and Rosewall lost to young, 6-1, 6-1, 6-4.
really and truly is the first legit home run kid the Yankees have had since
but it sure is going to take more than home runs to get the Yankees out of this.
Before Aaron Judge was given the starting right fielder’s job with the Yankees, before he became the star of his team, the star of this Yankee team was supposed to be its bullpen.
How’s that working out for them? And on the night at Fenway when
looks like Dellin Betances for what feels like the first time in a month, doesn’t get anybody out in the bottom of the 9th and finally walks in the winning run and the Red Sox, literally, walk off with a win.
Somebody raise a hand, by the way, if you think Chapman, in the first year of five with the Yankees, looks like the same guy who used to scare teams half to death as soon as he came out of the bullpen.
Worth repeating today that if you are an at-risk American,
really is more of a danger to you right now than It was six months ago that
was 1-3 down to in the fifth set of the Australian Open final.
Look where he is now, three weeks shy of his 36th birthday, trying to set a men’s record with what would be his 8th Wimbledon on Sunday, and become the oldest man to win that tournament since 1909 in the process. Friday night was another one of those nights at Citi Field when you saw the team that we thought the Mets were going to be this season.
It means you saw what they look like when they have most of their players, and when they get good starting pitching. holding up those cue cards the other day on television reminded me of one of the best scenes from “Love, Actually,” the greatest Christmas movie of them all. Just without the wit. Or the charm.
called “stupid” the other day, as if that were breaking news.
I wrote the other day that Aaron Judge might make 60 a magic number again in baseball, but pretty sure it already is with outside lawyers at the White House.
I really am starting to think that with that many Russians in the room, and and
should have thought about getting themselves a party bus.
Hosting the ESPY Awards the other night, was even funnier than
Of course, Peyton was trying to be funny.