Beautifully shared! I’m a tennis nut too (my husband played college tennis at UGA long before Isner but we got to meet him once at an alumni event- nice guy!), and your stories made me think how I miss talking about matches w my dad, who taught me to play, and with whom I played until two years before he died at 83.
I'm sorry you lost your dad. How cool is it that you got to bond over the game of tennis with him?! I don't have anybody else in my life who follows tennis at the level I do. It's one of a hundred reasons I'm really going to miss my buddy.
Thank you. It is hard to lose those special people who we shared unique interests with. It sounds like your friend played such an important role in your life in many ways.
On the tennis-fan-bonding-note: My mom didn’t play tennis but she loved to watch (she and my dad were divorced long ago.) My mom died in 2021. When Serena played what we knew would likely be her last match at the Open this year, I kept thinking how much my mom would have loved it. God kindly supplied my daughter to watch that match w me and to get super-excited about it. (My husband and I watch together or talk about matches but he tends to be a little less ‘intense’ about it than I am. My daughter and my mom were good at being intense😉).
Beautifully shared! I’m a tennis nut too (my husband played college tennis at UGA long before Isner but we got to meet him once at an alumni event- nice guy!), and your stories made me think how I miss talking about matches w my dad, who taught me to play, and with whom I played until two years before he died at 83.
I'm sorry you lost your dad. How cool is it that you got to bond over the game of tennis with him?! I don't have anybody else in my life who follows tennis at the level I do. It's one of a hundred reasons I'm really going to miss my buddy.
Thank you. It is hard to lose those special people who we shared unique interests with. It sounds like your friend played such an important role in your life in many ways.
On the tennis-fan-bonding-note: My mom didn’t play tennis but she loved to watch (she and my dad were divorced long ago.) My mom died in 2021. When Serena played what we knew would likely be her last match at the Open this year, I kept thinking how much my mom would have loved it. God kindly supplied my daughter to watch that match w me and to get super-excited about it. (My husband and I watch together or talk about matches but he tends to be a little less ‘intense’ about it than I am. My daughter and my mom were good at being intense😉).
Again, I am sorry for your loss.