imma get it done

niya she/her i have a love-hate relationship with f1 and tennis the occasional manga post may make an appearance

[kadalkarai]

Intro Post:

About me: niya, she/her, IN

I like watching: f1, tennis, currently foraying into motogp

My tennis favs: Iga Swiatek, Jannik Sinner, Mirra Andreeva, Arthur Fils

My f1 favs: Oscar Piastri, Lewis Hamilton

People I like (f1): Arvid Lindblad, Alex Albon, George Russell

People I like (tennis): Coco Gauff, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Ben Shelton, Qinwen Zheng, Carlos Alcaraz, Lilli Tagger

There are more people I like and might post about occasionally, I just vibe with these the most.

I also like a lot of manga, so there might be a few posts here related to them, miscellaneous movies, and books.

Feel free to reach out and be moots, i would love to talk to more people with the same interests as mine.

[kadalkarai]

Janniksin is this your doing??

[dovizioso]

FORMER???

[dovizioso]

[tennisribbons]

'The Winner takes it all' - the WTA top four and their losses at Roland Garros 2026

song: The Winner takes it all by ABBA | articles: rg draw preview; Aryna Sabalenka rg presscon; Iga Swiatek rg presscon; Coco Gauff match review; Elena Rybakina BBC summary | photo credits: Robert Prange, Alain Jocard, James Fearn, Franco Arland, NurPhoto, Eurasia Sport Images, Anne-Christine Poujoulat, Clive Brunskill

[lecstat]

TENNISBLR DOUBLES MATCH #4

N. KADALKARAI/M. ANDREEVA

I. SWIATEK / J. OSTAPENKO

Voting ended onMay 28

i. swiatek/j. ostapenko won the toss but could not decide if they wanted to serve or receive. after arguing back and forth @kadalkarai/m. andreeva intervened and have decided to serve. at the time of match start i. swiatek/j. ostapenko are still arguing. lswc. kadalkarai’s pre tournament interview is available here.

all polls for the day have been posted in accordance with oop. ongoing: match #1, match #2 and match #3.

[toyotathonics]

Match #4 Results R1: N. Kadalkarai/M.Andreeva def. I. Swiatek/J. Ostapenko 0-6, 6-1, 6(8)-6(8) DEFAULT I. Swiatek/J. Ostapenko

In a tight and scintillating match which lasted well into the night and had the French audience pa-pa-paing their hearts out, N. Kadalkarai/M. Andreeva beat I. Swiatek/J. Ostapenko— via default. 

M. Andreeva starts slow and despite N. Kadalkarai’s efforts the pair is quickly broken. M. Andreeva complains to the umpire that she has been shaken by Swiatek and Ostapenko’s pre-match and ongoing arguing. Also that Ostapenko has parked her Porsche next to the court and the headlights are bothering her on serve. After some deliberation between sets, the umpire demands the Porsche be moved. Ostapenko argues with the umpire for a symbolic 15 minutes.

Swiatek double faults away her first service game of the second set. Ostapenko smirks at her. Swiatek takes an unapproved bathroom break after blaming Ostapenko’s long argument for her faulting. WADA tries to send a chaperone after her. In a show of sportsmanship and camaraderie, N. Kadalkarai stops them. N. Kadalkarai gets the second break with a nice slice volley. Andreeva misses a smash. Conchita holds up her dog in the stands. Andreeva is smiling by the next point: she has remembered what she is playing for. The match culminates in a third set tiebreak wherein Penko once more angers the umpire and is DEFAULTED leading to a Kadalkarai/Andreeva victory. 

N. Kadalkarai/M. Andreeva progress to R2 where they will face F. 9916/S. Vagnozzi.

Participants: @kadalkarai

[kadalkarai]

This is not the way one wishes to win. Alas, unsportsmanlike conduct is unsportsmanlike conduct and the way ms. Ostapenko behaved was very much unlike the behaviour expected from a slam champion. Nonetheless, Mirra and I are thrilled to progress and in her words, we would like to thank ourselves.

We are looking forward to the next round, lswc.

[manaphy]

thank u for being a cooler blog than me and not unfollowing me yet

[l8tof1]

[tennisribbons]

What shocks me besides the misogyny people have been throwing at Iga since Maja’s run is also how eager they seem to discard her. Imagine the best player of the decade representing your country and doing it with so much pride and care and all you have for her is contempt and disrespect. Like we’re talking about someone who went around behind the scenes at this year’s Australian Open and told everybody who would listen how joyful and proud she was that Poland finally won the United Cup. And instead of being happy that there’s now two amazing and wonderful players being so successful it’s like half the country is out to downgrade Iga and crown Maja as their new favourite thing. Idk it’s just so sad to see them being pitted against each other like this and have people use Maja’s success as a reason to shit on Iga, especially considering their shared history.

[servesociety]

iga is being held to a uniquely punishing standard. we’re talking about a six-time grand slam champion and world no. 1 for 125 weeks getting dragged while her own childhood friend’s extraordinary underdog run is being used as a stick to beat her with.

what makes it especially uncomfortable to watch is that polish media has spent years struggling with how to frame a woman who doesn’t fit its preferred mould of femininity. iga has been criticised for being too serious, too guarded, too awkward, too intense, too emotional, and sometimes not emotional enough. after a while, people start treating her reserve as a personality defect rather than what it actually is: a completely rational response to being repeatedly burned by the same media ecosystem.

the joy around maja is real and deserved. her run was beautiful. but maja’s success should be a celebration of maja. instead, parts of the conversation have immediately become about what she supposedly has that iga doesn’t.

iga has given everything to polish tennis. she put poland on the tennis map in a way no player before her managed. for years she carried expectations, scrutiny, and national pride on her shoulders. and yet the moment someone more accessible, more naturally open with the media, and frankly easier for people to project onto comes along, a portion of her own country seems ready to trade her in.

there is truly nothing worse than a player’s own country’s media. the rest of the world tends to judge you by what you’ve achieved. media at home often judges you by how closely you’ve matched the version of you they imagined.

[kadalkarai]

Actually insane the way people switched up on the spurs after the wcf. Like you guys are NOT knicks fans be so fr rn you just wanna root for the ‘underdog’

(this is mainly abt ppl ik irl and those annoying content creators)

Spurs in 7

[prahaopen]

I’m gonna say it not bc it’s doomposting but just bc it’s a genuine opinion and I feel like it needs to be said out loud and accepted within the community. Sooo I think Iga is not going to defend Wimbledon

[kadalkarai]

Just realized I’m traveling for about 80% off the grass swing (so I’m gonna miss most of it) but then I’ll be at my grandparents place towards its tail end so i can watch wimby with my grandpa who’s a huge fan of tennis.

Idk who his favorite player is tho he’s always so secretive about these things 😭😭

[sinnersnote]

Roland Garros 2026, Final: Siniakova/Townsend def. Krunic/Danilina 6-2, 7-5

[challengersdvd]

my point still stands. fuck tour organizers fuck your schedulers fuck the atp tour for doing absolutely nothing to penalize him in any way and still allowing him to earn a fucking livelihood. there are some serious things wrong with this sport and these people need to start fucking doing something about it if they don’t want the sport to completely crash and fucking burn

[upsetalert]

iga congratulating only the runner up like that’s my girl

[freaksinner]

How it feels at every point on flavio serve

[97jag]

FLAVIOOOOOO FORZAAA

[l8tof1]

AND LEWIS MOVES UP TO P2 IN THE DRIVER STANDINGS!!! 👑🐐