Tennis on the TV

When I was in Newtown State School in Toowoomba, my mother had me take tennis lessons from Ross Hedge who had his own Tennis Shop downtown.  His name  was big in Toowoomba Tennis.  Well, my efforts were the best I could do, but I was rather un-coordinated and had a "hole in my racquet" and so I never made it to the Davis Cup Tennis Match.  My racquet had what my father called "Catgut" strings so I could not get it wet at all.  My lessons were a painful reminder that I was not cut out for any athletic course in life.
So, we have Satellite TV service and the Australian Open is on the TV and I have been able to watch just what can be done with a tennis racquet and little yellow ball.  Scoring is a total mystery to me and what is an even bigger mystery is the way in which the players groan, grunt, yelp, moan, squeal, gasp, whistle and go "UGH" as they belt the ball to the other side of the court. Does the noise indicate strength of return or is it a way of throwing off your opponent?  The gallery also is quite noisy.  One Australian girl was on the court and a bunch of admirers kept yelling, "Go, Aussie, Go!"  This is rather staid from the football games I attended when I was younger in Australia when the cheering got louder and louder with the yell, "have a go, ya mug."
or "Why'd ya drop it ya drongo" and other epithets.  Of course the football matches at the athletic oval in Toowoomba were not on Television (we did not have TV in those days) but George Lovejoy was perched on top of a van outside the oval doing a play by play over the radio station.  I loved hearing the call by George Lovejoy.  I have no idea how or why Americans call Gridiron football when they carry the ball.
One thing I noticed is the ladies who play tennis have the muscular development of males and it seems to destroy their femininity.  For the first time in my life I saw Serena Williams.  She is very tall and very muscular and she creamed her opponent.
I am amazed that they are playing Tennis in the sun - I heard that the temperatures were really hot.  Guess it is time for sunblock....................
Tonight we held the first Rootsmagic Genealogy Program group meeting.  The local paper outdid themselves by putting a picture prominently on the 'classes for the taking' column, that showed a page of genealogy and the caption under it giving phone numbers of Lee and myself for people to contact.  We have had many phone calls about it and we had about 12 persons show up.  we are ecstatic at the attendance.  Our meeting was really good but did not go as I had planned, but rather spoke to the needs of the people in attendance.  Our goal was not to sell the program to anyone, but to get them to realize that it is a really great idea to get your info into a computer program rather than have boxes of paper pieces with bits of information on them.  The question was posed "why this program over the others you mentioned" and one of the ladies in the back row said, "Well, the selling point for me was that this program, more than any others, has received peer reviewed accolades."  thanks for that supportive comment.
Well, it is back to watching the ladies belt a little yellow ball back and forth and hear the Australian Cheer Squad yelling encouragement to their favorite player.  Go Aussie Go.