It’s summer in the UK. There’s scorching sun outside - heatwave warning, people, slap on the suncream and be sensible please - and Wimbledon, the best tennis competition in the world is upon us. I may have explained this before but my mother is a Wimbledon fanatic. Every year she takes time off work during the second week so that she can watch the ( Read more... )

Honestly? I never thought this day would come. Seventy-seven years after the last British man won the Men's Singles Title at Wimbledon - the legendary Fred Perry who won the title three times back-to-back - a British man has finally won the title again.


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Title: The Sweet Taste Of Victory
Fandom: Spartacus
Characters: Agron/Nasir, Duro/Diona, Spartacus/Sura, Nemetes
Rating: M
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Summary: Modern Day AU Agron is a vibrant professional tennis player, aiming to win Wimbledon. He meets an extremely intriguing man in the staff & players bar, who turns out to be a lot more than he'd ( Read more... )

In honour of the fact that Novak Djokovic is the 2011 Wimbledon Men's Champion, I am posting a tennis RPF fic rec. I always read a lot of tennis fic this time of year, thanks to Wimbledon. It really gives me an appetite for it. And it was a good final today. Djokovic played the game of his life, he was astonishing. Nadal just wasn't as good as ( Read more... )

It's Wimbledon time again! It's one of those yearly events that never fails to make me smile. Thanks to my Mother's tennis obsession, I have watched Wimbledon every year since I was born. My first crush was Boris Becker. When its Wimbledon, my Mother can think of nothing else. My brother played the game and loves it too. He and Mum have actually ( Read more... )

I am now 25 years old. That's gonna take a little getting used to. It was a glorious birthday. Anthony took me out for breakfast and I recieved many wonderful presents including the first series of Chuck on DVD as well as the first series of Flashpoint, and Anthony bought me a Nintendo DS which I completely didn't expect. Although I did spent an ( Read more... )

RAFA WON!!! (I'm choosing not to put this under a cut since the news has been shouting about it).

Longest Wimbledon final ever and incredibly tense. It twisted me up so badly that I had to leave after Federer made it two sets all and wept long and hard in the shower. I haven't been that emotional in a Wimbledon final since Sampras (yawn) had that ( Read more... )

It's been a whirl since I got to Cornwall on Thursday, but the most important and exciting thing that has happened is my birthday on Friday. I am now 24 glorious years old, kinda a strange thought but age has never mattered to me. I'm not one of those girls who feels incredibly upset about how many years she's got. Just a number to me.

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That was a good men's singles final at Wimbledon on Sunday. I think I'm only just coming down from the high of it lol. It was Nadal vs Federer, both going after records held by Borg (who was watching from the royal box), and it was more of a dogfight than a match.

I am looking forward to seeing Rafa win Wimbledon in the future cos his grass court ( Read more... )

So after two buses and three trains, I got back to Southampton safely yesterday. It feels like I've been gone five minutes, not eight days. The weather's boiling here so I got my sheets washed and dried, though it does mean that stepping outside is like stepping into an oven, ick. Got my grocery shopping done and went on a long walk into a part of ( Read more... )