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Coup Droit


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Charity?

 Patience? Mercy? biggrinbiggrinbiggrin

I think it's Hope - but might be Faith smile



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Sounds great

I know Atmane well - and he certainly is a fiery character - I rather like him for it - it's pretty spectacular tennis at times - and when the tennis isn't spectacular, the oncourt antics certainly are

Glad your daughter (Hope? Faith?) got to see Iva Jovic too - she's only 17 (Iva, that is), an attractive player, and girls your daugher's age often like to see the youngsters

Great bonding !

at the time he melted down, we were watching Iva Jovic, he came behind us, literally two feet away , and smashed his racket on the tarpaulin. Hope jumped a mile and spilt her glass of fizz! Should have sent him the bill. His coach was American I think, kept muttering things about Atmane - this butter, this idiot. Got called out for coaching as well by the umpire. Quite entertaining.

Jovic was nice to watch - very neat and tidy; masarova let her have it though, she also imploded near the end of the second set, and let it slip away, Jovic seemed v happy with the win and clearly will go higher.  



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indiana wrote:

Charity?

 Patience? Mercy? biggrinbiggrinbiggrin

I think it's Hope - but might be Faith smile

 Its Hope! 

its actually a long story. Between our first and Hope being born, we actually lost twins that sadly died just after birth. one of the twins had a syndrome called Edwards Syndrome and was never going to make it, but we thought Robert might as he had nothing wrong with him - but he was too weak and small and , we feel , went away to protect his sister.

Anyway, a couple of years later we realised my wife was expecting again and we had a daughter - Hope was her name, symbolising that from the tragedy of Anna and Robert, there is always hope for better times ahead.

Hope also has a syndrome as well - Turners Syndrome. She is actually mosaic, and it is impossible to tell, although she needs to be assessed every year or so. The main thing for her is it makes her slightly smaller than most although she is still 5 feet and 3 inches so not very small. We knew we were expecting a girl as, due to Annas syndrome the doctors tested in the womb. They found the baby had Turners and was a girl, as Turners only affects girls.  



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Jon, that brought tears to my eyes - I'm so sorry for your loss, and to your wife too, what sadness people have to live through....
But so happy that Hope came along afterwards - blessings to all your family

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Thank you CD. Its a long time ago now, Hope is 23, so 25 years. Early 2000. But you never forget and at the time it was devastating.

But Hope and our son, AJ, make us very proud. AJ got a first from Oxford in PPE; Hope has just got her final average back for Edinburgh and averaged 70.1 so we think she is confirmed as a first also. Waiting for the official news. Fingers crossed. She had a crazy and well documented final year so she has done amazingly.

My wife and I went Polytechnic and both got Desmonds! Haha

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Oh Jon brought tears to my eyes too - appreciation for what we have goes alongside tragedy and the mention of Desmonds made me laugh!

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Oh Jon brought tears to my eyes too - appreciation for what we have goes alongside tragedy and the mention of Desmonds made me laugh!

 biggrin Thank you Christine. Im sure folks here have through far worse - we all have our journeys and endure and survive, and try to look forward. But also remember and look back and shed the odd tear. Im sure we all here have been through lots. We always count our blessings. 

 



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         L16:   (WC) Henry Searle WR 427 vs (7) Tristan Schoolkate (AUS) WR 131 (CH = 119 in April)

L16:  (WC) Jack Pinnington Jones WR 340 vs (3) Billy Harris WR 108  hmm

L32:  (Q) Johannus Monday WR 243 defeated (6) Terence Atmane (FRA) WR 123 by 7-6(4) 6-3  ban-woohoo.gif

L32:  (Q) Oliver Crawford WR 266 defeated (2) Brandon Holt (USA) WR 106 by 6-3 6-7(2) 7-6(5)  biggrin

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L16:  (Q) Johannus Monday WR 243 vs Shintaro Mochizuki (JPN) WR 178 (CH = 129 in November 2023)
L16:  Jenson Brooksby (USA) WR 151 (CH = 33 in June 2022) vs (Q) Oliver Crawford WR 266



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All the very best to you and your family for the future, Jon, though as you say never forgetting the past. And let's hope that Hope gets that first, though whatever she seems to have done great.



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All the very best to you and your family for the future, Jon, though as you say never forgetting the past. And let's hope that Hope gets that first, though whatever she seems to have done great.

 Thank you Indy. 



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Well done Oli C, thats a good win over the second seed. 5 through to round 2 now?

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I saw a little of Charlie Broom and Ben Jones over Lui Maxted and Conor Thomson. Charlie and Ben were v pleased with their MTB win, looked like it meant something to them, maybe some rivalry there

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JonH comes home wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
indiana wrote:

Charity?

 Patience? Mercy? biggrinbiggrinbiggrin

I think it's Hope - but might be Faith smile

 Its Hope! 

its actually a long story. Between our first and Hope being born, we actually lost twins that sadly died just after birth. one of the twins had a syndrome called Edwards Syndrome and was never going to make it, but we thought Robert might as he had nothing wrong with him - but he was too weak and small and , we feel , went away to protect his sister.

Anyway, a couple of years later we realised my wife was expecting again and we had a daughter - Hope was her name, symbolising that from the tragedy of Anna and Robert, there is always hope for better times ahead.

Hope also has a syndrome as well - Turners Syndrome. She is actually mosaic, and it is impossible to tell, although she needs to be assessed every year or so. The main thing for her is it makes her slightly smaller than most although she is still 5 feet and 3 inches so not very small. We knew we were expecting a girl as, due to Annas syndrome the doctors tested in the womb. They found the baby had Turners and was a girl, as Turners only affects girls.  

 Bless Anna and Robert!! Crying as I write this .. I too am a bereaved parent and I empathise with your loss JonH



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With all my sympathy and best wishes to you and your family, too, B00thy - life sometimes can be so terribly hard

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JonH comes home wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
indiana wrote:

Charity?

 Patience? Mercy? biggrinbiggrinbiggrin

I think it's Hope - but might be Faith smile

 Its Hope! 

its actually a long story. Between our first and Hope being born, we actually lost twins that sadly died just after birth. one of the twins had a syndrome called Edwards Syndrome and was never going to make it, but we thought Robert might as he had nothing wrong with him - but he was too weak and small and , we feel , went away to protect his sister.

Anyway, a couple of years later we realised my wife was expecting again and we had a daughter - Hope was her name, symbolising that from the tragedy of Anna and Robert, there is always hope for better times ahead.

Hope also has a syndrome as well - Turners Syndrome. She is actually mosaic, and it is impossible to tell, although she needs to be assessed every year or so. The main thing for her is it makes her slightly smaller than most although she is still 5 feet and 3 inches so not very small. We knew we were expecting a girl as, due to Annas syndrome the doctors tested in the womb. They found the baby had Turners and was a girl, as Turners only affects girls.  

 Bless Anna and Robert!! Crying as I write this .. I too am a bereaved parent and I empathise with your loss JonH

 Hi Boothy - thank you so much for your message, it means a lot and please take my sympathy in return, my thoughts are with you and your family. 

It is hard - for us, it was now 25 years ago and it feels like a different lifetime in many ways. A lot of other things have happened since - but you never forget, the hurt and loss just dulls over time. 

I am not sure if your loss is more recent, I get the feeling it may have been, and if the person you lose is someone you have got to see grow and get to know as a personality, I can only imagine that is such a deep loss to bear. Thoughts are with you and hope that time has healed

  



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