In which the youngest in society are taught that that if they have malice enough to set fire to people’s tennis rackets, headbands and shoes, then their own lives must pay the forfeit.
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Court Life: the best of enemies, the best of friends?
Continued from Court Life: it’s No Vacc for Novak!
Noli’s disingenuous claim that somehow our long-standing animosity could be interpreted as amiability grated all the way to the airport. Ever since we had encountered each other across the net of Wimbledon’s Centre Court all those months ago, he had never fully come to terms with how his game fell apart on that fateful Sunday afternoon in sunny SW19. He had been up by a set and a break but then it all unravelled.
“Terrible. I feel terrible.” He was heard gasping as he stumbled off court whilst I basked in the affection of the world’s press and its pooches.
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Court Life: it’s No Vacc for Novak!
Continued from Court Life: 100 Days…
I am used to waiting. I have waited a lot in the years leading up to my inauguration as Chairman of the club so am no stranger to the waiting game. But after five hours of being perched on my head honcho cushion, without seeing a tremble of my tepee curtain became, as you can imagine, dear reader, a tad irksome.
Where are my people and why are they are taking so long? I muttered to myself as I perambulated around an ever decreasing circle on the floor of my teepee. Do they not realise who has called them? Do they not realise who I am? Do they not know what is at stake?
Just at the moment I had come to the centre of my tepee with no-where else to perambulate, my mobile phone rang. At last I thought, they have finally seen sense and are going to ingratiate themselves with their grovelling apologies.
“Hello!” I snapped. “What’s taking you? We have a lot of business ahead of us! Setting up a a brand new regime doesn’t happen just by itself you know.”
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