The Forbidden City, Beijing
I flew Thursday to Beijing from Shenzhen, a three hour flight. The airport in Shenzhen is beautiful, modern, clean..charging stations at every gate. I flew Shenzhen Airlines which was fine […]
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The Summer Palace
The Summer Palace was a Royal Garden for various Chinese dynasties. It is outside of Beijing a bit but accessible via the Metro. I took the metro today, and it’s […]
Shenzhen Champion
Wednesday I played my final round robin match against the other woman in the group who had won her previous three matches and won, so I won the tournament. We […]
Shenzhen Tuesday: Into the Final Round
I played a Canadian in Shenzhen today, Agatha, who lives in Malaysia with her American husband Ralph. So communication was easy, since Agatha also speaks Chinese and Malay. I won […]
Successful Tournament Start on a Steamy Monday in Shenzhen
I finally played my first match today in Shenzhen. The order of play never appeared on the ITF site (at least not before 8am when we had to take the […]
Shenzhen Day 2:
The tournament, a Grade 3, began today in Shenzhen. The tournament site itself is quite impressive, even more so now that things are underway. Yesterday staff and volunteers were painting, […]
Hong Kong!
I heard about this tournament in Shenzhen, China a few months ago…and now I am in Hong Kong. Tennis not only is the sport of a lifetime but can lead […]
Hong Kong Thursday: The Calm before the Typhoon
Jet lag…that was the reason I was online at 3am and learned a typhoon was heading for Hong Kong! A typhoon,, a cyclone, a hurricane…all basically the same thing, but […]
Hong Kong: The Typhoon Haima Hits
The plan was to go to Shenzhen today. But then Mother Nature intervened and the trip is delayed till tomorrow and the tournament won’t start till Sunday now. This was […]