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Also if youโre on Bluesky, Iโm now on it too: carolebouchard.bsky.social. This and Threads (carole_bouchard_) are already doing so much better for my sanity right now than this dead toxic bird.
Carole Bouchard ๐๐
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Carole Bouchard ๐๐
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๐พ writer, author, broadcaster. @carolebouchard.bsky.social ; IG: carole_bouchard_ ; Editor Tennis Sweet Spot newsletter: tennissweetspot.substack.com
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Joined December 2009
- The way Djokovic has been treated since winning the first appeal is an utter disgrace. He is not a threat to Australia. He didnโt come here to excite any unvaxxed movement whatsoever. They perfectly know it. Yet after a week of not being able to ensure theyโd win on the basis
- Cancelling Djokovicโs visa for public interest. Like the guy is a menace for Australiaโฆ Yet it took a week and until 6pm on Friday to make decision about such menace. Again: giving exemptions is putting players into a political game theyโre not made for. Bad idea from the start.
- "He came up to me in the locker room. Told me he knows how difficult it is for me right now but that it'll all come along. He doesn't have to do it, it's very nice from him to do it. He isn't praised enough", Shapovalov about Djokovic.
- We can talk about the Next Gen all the time but Iโm sorry: nobody out there plays like Djokovic and Nadal. Nobody can do what those two are doing right now. Thatโs why itโs still all about them. The level they can reach remains unmatched.
- Between Rafa winning a GS on one foot and Novak winning one with a massive abdominal tear. Roger reaching second week of one on one knee and Andy still being competitive with a fake hip... Like, the Avengers remain the Avengers... #AgingAvengers
- Djokovic sending kisses and heart signs from the windowโฆ of his detention center. Tennis season 2022: never thought weโd start by writing thisโฆูุง ุนู ุฑู ููุฒุน ุจูุณุงุช ๐โค๏ธ
00:00 - Australian government still threatening to deport someone after justice said they have zero reason for it, says everything about this case. And everything about what might be going on in many other ones. And itโs kinda scaryโฆ
- Difference between Djokovic and Voracova is that one can pay for a full team of lawyers and one canโt. Should the Tour automatically provide legal counsel? After all, she was picked up from an officiel competition,then deported with a 3 year ban that will prevent her from working
- Novak is now 34. Andy is also 34. Meaning Rafa soon turning 35. And Roger will turn 40 real soon. I'm sorry, when did that happen!? I am not ready. Where is the psychological support line??
- Nadal on French TV said that his worst moment of the tournament was after the match against Moutet as he just couldn't walk anymore. Said he had to have his foot anesthetized to be able to keep going, thanked the doc form the Spanish federation.
- Hearing Shapovalov saying these two weeks have been draining. Which is normal. Then think about Djokovic being on an AO - RG and Wimbledon finals streak + u add the pressure going with the hisory making bonus in Paris.Again, he's entirely something else in the game & in the head.
- Also, as for each Novak Djokovic's achievement, please spare a thought for Jelena Gencic. She saw everything first, set up the mold for Novak to thrive in. Foundations, rock solid from such an early age. If it wasn't fate, I don't know what is.
