Part of being a tennis player at level: LAUNDRY! So important!

Laundry and tennis players have much of it. Plus having to travel, many solos, no funds for coaching, carrying items, washing it. Tennis really is full-time support that requires very smart, independent, fit people. Most pro sports have teams that travel together and get bulk things, food, laundry, and hotels. SURE if one is Fed or Serena their big banks allow for many advantages. Advantages such as coaching. Nothing worse than no clean undies and no store open. Agassi had that issue, at least he said in his book! Good reads, as is Sharapova's book!


Many other pros cannot afford those extras. Give me a break and earn it as rationale, all players on pro tour are TRYING to earn it. Sure some have different approaches, habits, and efforts but they are working hard the players I watched for many years from early qualies to finals of the main draw. Not all will make those big bucks but tours need them. A better distribution of prize money and NO COACHING. Too many pros cannot afford a coach, full-time or even part-time. DON't change something that made tennis great, two singles players having to figure it out all alone. Get better judges to CRACK down on no coaching from anywhere. Including monitoring those tricky modern cell phones, and no quickie video coaching on water or bathroom breaks.


I would be doing laundry tonight, enjoy it. Yet QUARTERS, ugh. Sometimes the most valued commodity is that QUARTER when need six but have five! If you don't relate or understand that then well it tells us something. Speaking of laundry!

Lol, yes it is SEXIST to ask someone, especially a female if she "does the laundry". EVERYONE in the family can do the laundry, take turns or wash their own. I certainly learned that aspect of life. Who believes in some of this bullshit propaganda... :) 


Some traditions are good NO COACHING others need to be GONE WITH THE WIND and good lead into movies and what will I watch tonight!! Maybe that indie one I started earlier, it had no TRUE MOVIE STARS but some pretty good darn actors.  Movie STARS have that something, well it is hard to explain. Yet there are some good actors out there. MOVIE star quality has nothing to do with pure physical features, hardly. Kind of like the greats in tennis they had that elusive something.


Have a great night!


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