Hi, I’m Kitty (she/her) 🎾
Tennis has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I started playing in the 1970s, and over the years it has become one of those rare constants I keep returning to. Not just a sport I follow, but something I’ve grown up alongside.
My earliest memories are tied to John McEnroe — the brilliance, the fire, the feeling that anything could happen the moment a match began. From there, the game kept unfolding: Borg’s calm, Connors’ fight, Becker’s explosiveness, Edberg’s elegance, Agassi’s reinvention, Sampras’ precision… and then Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Murray. Each era layering itself over the last, changing how I see the game without ever fully replacing what came before.
What draws me in now isn’t just individual results, but the structure underneath it all. The small technical decisions that shape matches. The patterns that repeat across generations. The way tennis is always quietly evolving, even when it looks familiar on the surface. I’m especially interested in the current generation — not only Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, but the wider group of players shaping both the ATP and WTA right now, and what their games are starting to tell us about where tennis is going next.
I’m equally drawn to what happens just outside the spotlight: the coaching influence, the tactical thinking, the invisible shaping of style and mentality. Darren Cahill, for me, sits in that space — part of the quiet architecture behind how modern tennis is built.
Outside of tennis, my attention has been widening in ways I didn’t entirely expect. Books have been taking up more space again — stories that linger, characters that follow me into ordinary moments, the kind of reading that feels immersive rather than passing. Travel has also become more important, not just as movement but as perspective: watching tennis in different places, noticing how the same game feels slightly altered depending on where you are in the world, and letting those experiences settle into memory.
Food sits alongside that too — small rituals, new places, the texture of a day as much as its structure. And more recently, there’s been a quiet sense of expansion in general. New curiosities appearing. New hobbies I didn’t plan for. A loosening of old definitions. Less about becoming someone different, more about letting more of life in.
This space is where all of that lives: tennis thoughts and history, match reactions and technical rabbit holes, books I can’t stop thinking about, travel impressions, food moments, and whatever else I find myself pulled toward next.
Always happy to talk tennis — or books, or places, or anything in between 🎾💜
