Friday 10 September 2021

Tennis

 Canadians!

Since 2014 Wimbledon, no other country has had *six* unique Grand Slam semi-finalists, with three of each gender: Flag of Canada Flag of Canada Flag of Canada Flag of Canada Flag of Canada Flag of Canada

What is amazing is most of them are first generation Canadians, immigrants looking for a better/different life.

At one of the games, they honoured 9 women who fought for equal pay for female tennis players. 

 An aside, I love the suit.

 

5 comments:

Anvilcloud said...

All, except Genie, children of recent immigrants.

Leylah will be in very tough today, but she has on other days and prevailed. We shall see.

Tom said...

...the world would be a sad place with immigrants!

DUTA said...

I don't know about other countries, but Roumania, where I'm originally from, has always encouraged talent in almost any field, including sports (remember Nadia Comaneci?). Andreescu would have reached the top of international tennis in Roumania too, no doubt about that.

William Kendall said...

Great players.

Kay said...

Oh my gosh! A Pacman suit?