#ayuspeaks

[aliicante]

so much ben shelton hate on tennis twitter and it’s like??,:? guys it’s so easy to just say “i like jannik more and i want him to win” instead of straight up racist vitriol. the way people over there talk about ben and coco is so infuriating like just say you’re mad that a young black player is successful and enjoying themselves 😐

[ayuboodles]

learning how to make gifs is fun. making some from a league game I lolreplay recorded! I'll upload some soon.

[aliicante]

sideblog business got too annoying i fear you will have to put up with me talking about racecars on this account but i will do my best to tag appropriately so you can mute it if you want peace and love

[aliicante]

how to defeat crippling anxiety that keeps getting its claws in like every aspect of your life lol !! like wow what if i just wanted to have fun on the internet talking about tennis and suddenly the demons in my head are going 'everyone thinks you're dumb and unoriginal' #?$??$?$/blowing myself up

[aliicante]

can’t watch jannik v ben because i let out such a dramatic groan at adm’s loss complete with sliding out of my chair onto the floor that my friend accused me of acting like her father after a football game and made me get out of the house for coffee 😭

[aliicante]

okay bad bitches we did it we made it through the indian wells round of 32! some thoughts on the upcoming matches:

also these are not technical notes i do not have the capacity to do that just yet i'm just rambling don't take it too seriously LOL

atp

lehečka/tsitsipas — you all know i want jiri to win this but i fear it is not happening and my boy is getting beaten down first thing in the morning. then again i haven't been watching stef lately so idk how he's playing but it feel silly to hold out any real hope

maroszan/alcaraz — carlitos straight to the qfs please Next

z****v/de minaur — okay listen i know their h2h isn't great but alex does have the most recent win over the rat (davis cup), not to mention he's been playing absolute lights-out full-dark no-stars tennis lately. like we have a chance. it's slim and i know this match is going to do terrible things to my heart rate but We Have A Chance

shelton/sinner — the main event! i'm not going to lie i am genuinely more interested to see how this goes than in who wins... ben being the only person still in the tournament to have beaten jannik AT ALL recently. this one's going to be a good one i'm excited

ruud/monfils — casper is looking in better shape but monfils is always something of a wild card... lowkey i will be happy no matter how this one turns out i just hope both teams have fun [heart]

nardi/paul — i'm mad at tommy paul for defeating ugo humbert even though i'm still mad at ugo humbert for deafeating daniil in dubai Whatever. luca nardi indian wells champion 2024

fritz/rune — okay listennn i have to support fritz as a fellow californian at the california tournament but also i think rune tennis is some of the silliest shit available as entertainment to the people. i could go either way on this one

medvedev/dimitrov — of course i'm rooting for daniil but this one should also be fun to watch

wta

potapova/paolini — jasmine paolini indian wells champion 2024 Next question

pavlyuchenkova/kostyuk — i am not kostyuk's biggest fan i fear

kerber/wozniacki — throwback match... honestly the fact that we get to see this as a r16 matchup in 2024 is kind of crazy (positive) i am quite looking forward to watching this one

światek/putintseva — listen on any other day i'd say iga's taking it but the last time she was in a wta 1000 she got knocked out fairly unexpectedly.... i do not know enough about putintseva to really say anything though so i could also just be loud and wrong

parry/sakkari — maria sakkari my icon my good friend... please avenge leylah for me thank you

mertens/gauff — coco 🔛🔝

yuan/kasatkina — i'm hoping for either dasha or jasmine to win the whole thing ngl so i fear i am on her side for this one

navarro/sabalenka — i like emma navarro but i am quite sure sabalenka is taking it

[aliicante]

this is a little silly but like the fact that i got into tennis somewhat arbitrarily last summer bc i liked a guy and then ended up more invested in the sport than the guy and now i'm here & able to find so much joy in not only the sport but also in the little corner of the internet full of very cool people who share my joy for the sport??? kinda incredible

[aliicante]

this time change thing is crazy why did i wake up in the afternoon

[aliicante]

i have this new coworker and he is genuinely the most incompetent individual ever to set foot inside a café what the fuck do you mean you don’t know what a macchiato is i am going to kill you and then myself

[aliicante]

my best friend is an art history major and i had her explain halos in different art movements to me for like half an hour this afternoon and then she asked me why and i had to tell her it was because of the rolex clock halo qinwen and daniil pictures from auso this year and she looked at me like i was crazy, which i am,

[aliicante]

i should make a study blog or just start posting it on here do you think internet validation can counteract the adhd so i can get anything done ever

[aliicante]

my friend invited me to an nhl game because our local team sucks so the tickets are cheap as hell which is cool because live sports are always cool but now i have exactly a week to learn how hockey works

[aliicante]

well now that that absolute shitshow is over i'm going to write down my r16 thoughts and make some spreadsheets and then. and then i am going to lie down and think about Max Verstappen

[aliicante]

do you ever have a professor so stupid you start to get worried that their class is actively shrinking your brain because of how much you have to dumb your work down to fit their conventions

[aliicante]

thank u @drunkenromantic for the tag :>

LAST SONG: flower by seventeen!

FAVOURITE COLOUR: any shade of green

CURRENTLY WATCHING: i am awful at watching movies/shows like i've had a stream of the holdovers open in a tab for six weeks and have yet to actually watch it

SWEET / SAVOURY / SPICY: sweet and spicy. sometimes both at once. south asian things

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: yearning but in a cool nonchalant lowkey way (writing love letters in the margins of my notes like a chump)

CURRENT OBSESSION: unfortunately it is the de sinnaur narrative, which has compelled me in unforeseen ways. also i just got into f1 and this loscar sprite is kind of hitting. also i've been really into doing handstands lately

LAST THING YOU SEARCHED: jstor dot org

i don't want to spam tag someone who's been tagged already so this is open to anyone who wants to do it!

[aliicante]

me when i ignored my schoolwork all weekend to watch tennis and write fanfiction and contemplate the ruin of my life and now i have to speedrun several assignments in like two hours