Mimi (Mingge) Xu

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Mimi (Mingge) Xu

Var · Pro player

Coup Droit wrote:
April 1st 2024

New CH for Mimi - up to WTA 677

Well done to Mimi. Making nice steady progress now. Anyone know when Mimi is playing again? I wondered about Nottingham April 22nd? Would like to see her play.

-- Edited by Var on Monday 1st of April 2024 08:25:15 AM

the addict · Tennis legend

Var wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
April 1st 2024

New CH for Mimi - up to WTA 677
Well done to Mimi. Making nice steady progress now. Anyone know when Mimi is playing again? I wondered about Nottingham April 22nd? Would like to see her play.

-- Edited by Var on Monday 1st of April 2024 08:25:15 AM

The only entry showing on the ITF lists is for 15 April - and she has withdrawn from that. The entry deadline for Nottingham is this Thursday.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Var wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
April 1st 2024

New CH for Mimi - up to WTA 677
Well done to Mimi. Making nice steady progress now. Anyone know when Mimi is playing again? I wondered about Nottingham April 22nd? Would like to see her play.

-- Edited by Var on Monday 1st of April 2024 08:25:15 AM

She's playing in next week's U18 National Championships

She was down to play the J300 later in the month in France but has withdrawn from that

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 1st of April 2024 08:46:32 AM

Daisycat · Social player

Mimi is late 2007 so in school years would she not be sitting her GCSEs this year and prioritising?

Lambda · Challenger level

She sat her GCSEs last year.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

By the way, the commentator said yesterday that Mimi sat her A level maths this year - two years early

Nix · Futures level

Coup Droit wrote:
By the way, the commentator said yesterday that Mimi sat her A level maths this year - two years early

That's impressive. Maths is one of the hardest A levels! Two years early, gosh.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

After a very good week in Nottingham, Mimi now has a new singles CH at WR 602, and a doubles CH at WR 750

christ · Futures level

Nix wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
By the way, the commentator said yesterday that Mimi sat her A level maths this year - two years early
That's impressive. Maths is one of the hardest A levels! Two years early, gosh.

Rubbish. It is almost certainly one of the easiest.

... as long as you know the answers. It is one of the very few subjects with objectively right answers. It is without doubt one of the hardest of A levels to waffle and bluff, but that is as it should be.

indiana · Tennis legend

christ wrote:
Nix wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
By the way, the commentator said yesterday that Mimi sat her A level maths this year - two years early
That's impressive. Maths is one of the hardest A levels! Two years early, gosh.
Rubbish. It is almost certainly one of the easiest.
... as long as you know the answers. It is one of the very few subjects with objectively right answers. It is without doubt one of the hardest of A levels to waffle and bluff, but that is as it should be.

Coming through the Scottish school system, I have no direct exoerience of A levels but certainly familiarity with so many condidering Maths particularly hard.

Surely it very much depends on whether an individual has a natural aptitude for maths. For those who do, many will find it easy. For those who don't, many will find it a nightmare.

I do agree with you in the fact that Maths is by nature very different from most subjects but that in part does lead to perceptions and a fair amount of truth that for different groups it falls at each end of the easy / hard spectrum.

twentytoone · Intermediate Club Player

christ wrote:
Nix wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
By the way, the commentator said yesterday that Mimi sat her A level maths this year - two years early
That's impressive. Maths is one of the hardest A levels! Two years early, gosh.
Rubbish. It is almost certainly one of the easiest.
... as long as you know the answers. It is one of the very few subjects with objectively right answers. It is without doubt one of the hardest of A levels to waffle and bluff, but that is as it should be.

This has to be the worst comment I have ever read

Blue_Belle · Club Coach

Wow, does it matter if it's easy or not in the opinion of people who aren't a teenager or Mimi herself.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

twentytoone wrote:
christ wrote:
Nix wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
By the way, the commentator said yesterday that Mimi sat her A level maths this year - two years early
That's impressive. Maths is one of the hardest A levels! Two years early, gosh.
Rubbish. It is almost certainly one of the easiest.
... as long as you know the answers. It is one of the very few subjects with objectively right answers. It is without doubt one of the hardest of A levels to waffle and bluff, but that is as it should be.
This has to be the worst comment I have ever read

I think this is quite an interesting question (and don't agree really with Blue Belle that it's only teenagers' or Mimi's view that counts)

Like you, twentytoone, christ's post rankled slightly

It can't be right that Maths A level is the 'easiest' because maths has 'right' answers - otherwise a Maths degree has to be easier than other degrees, for the same reason. And a Maths Masters is easy too. (And a Maths PhD is a doddle)

But it is certainly true that more students take Maths A level early than other A levels - there are figures for that. And there are more maths young prodigies than, say, political science young prodigies. Which obviously has something to do (or all to do) with the nature/clarity of the subject (after all, even our politicians haven't sorted out political science). But this doesn't mean maths is 'easier'.

christ · Futures level

twentytoone wrote:
christ wrote:
Nix wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
By the way, the commentator said yesterday that Mimi sat her A level maths this year - two years early
That's impressive. Maths is one of the hardest A levels! Two years early, gosh.
Rubbish. It is almost certainly one of the easiest.
... as long as you know the answers. It is one of the very few subjects with objectively right answers. It is without doubt one of the hardest of A levels to waffle and bluff, but that is as it should be.
This has to be the worst comment I have ever read

Why?

If your approach to education is to waffle and bluff (instead of knowing your subject), then Maths will find you out where other subjects will not. This doesn't make it hard, it means the others are bluffable. If you know what you are doing, early (A Level and before) Maths exams are (relatively) easy - if you don't know what you are doing then you have no business taking the exam. This is definitely why children can and do take Maths early - it is very easy for someone to determine if a pupil knows what they are doing or not.

Traditionally I think people are taught to be scared of Maths, either by friends, family or teachers (or some combination of these) and this is unnecessary: approached sensibly early Maths is mostly arithmetic, and doesn't really require deductive reasoning, it is simply a matter of following relatively simple rules - this makes it much easier than subjects that require knowledge, comprehension and reasoning (none of which are necessary at or before A Level Maths: post A level all bets are off - then Maths gets very hard quite quickly). But knowledge, comprehension and reasoning can be bluffed in a lot of non-mathematical subjects.

I wouldn't have polluted Ms Xu's thread with this, but I take exception that people can say and post "Maths is hard" as if it were a statement of self-evident truth, when it is almost always a statement of the poster's discomfort, not an objective statement. I absolute stand by my position: Ms Xu will be taking Maths exams early because she doesn't find it "one of the hardest A levels".