Wrap Postscript
Before we move off the weekend, let us congratulate the most outstanding NZ sporting achievement: No, I'm not talking about the NZ women's hockey team win over Australia (pretty bloody impressive), nor my stepdaughter's continuing hot hand at the netball courts (7 out of 8, also pretty bloody impressive) ...
Yes, of course I am talking NZ Tennis and the marvellous news that Simon Rea won his second "career title" at a futures tournament in China. I love the last line - "Rea, 24 (marvellous potential that - a 24 y.o. on the futures circuit) ... should see his world ranking go inside the top-600 now"
Wow, that's sensational. At this rate, by the time he is 40 he may be knocking on the door of the top-200 and then we have a real future star on our hands that may even get the boffins at SPARC excited.
FFS. I wish I was rich and retired as I would go through the 100-odd sports there are and compile a list of New Zealanders ranked in the top 600. It would take a fkn long time; christ even at the height of my sporting prowess I was ranked inside the world's top 600, and it's not something I even mention to my neighbour, let alone expect to be published in a newspaper.
Why do our sporting media have such an obsession with our semi-amateur tennis players winning third-tier tournaments? We suck at tennis, and there are some other sports out there with purely amateur sportspeople who do a hell of a lot better than make the top 600 who never get a column inch. Stop being so lazy journos - get off ur arse and discover the wonderful diverse nature of sports and the New Zealanders who participate in it rather than tell us what Leanne Baker, Dan King-Turner, Simon Rea et al are doing every week.
Yes, of course I am talking NZ Tennis and the marvellous news that Simon Rea won his second "career title" at a futures tournament in China. I love the last line - "Rea, 24 (marvellous potential that - a 24 y.o. on the futures circuit) ... should see his world ranking go inside the top-600 now"
Wow, that's sensational. At this rate, by the time he is 40 he may be knocking on the door of the top-200 and then we have a real future star on our hands that may even get the boffins at SPARC excited.
FFS. I wish I was rich and retired as I would go through the 100-odd sports there are and compile a list of New Zealanders ranked in the top 600. It would take a fkn long time; christ even at the height of my sporting prowess I was ranked inside the world's top 600, and it's not something I even mention to my neighbour, let alone expect to be published in a newspaper.
Why do our sporting media have such an obsession with our semi-amateur tennis players winning third-tier tournaments? We suck at tennis, and there are some other sports out there with purely amateur sportspeople who do a hell of a lot better than make the top 600 who never get a column inch. Stop being so lazy journos - get off ur arse and discover the wonderful diverse nature of sports and the New Zealanders who participate in it rather than tell us what Leanne Baker, Dan King-Turner, Simon Rea et al are doing every week.
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