Pollute the Air

[heavensqueen]

Did your favorite fandom get rejected because it was one fic over the limit?
Have you just fallen in love with a new fandom the day after nominations ended?
Or are you morbane?

Tell us all


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Re: Catching up with past anons

[(Anonymous)]

(tennis coalie)

:DDDD

First of all, there's ontd_tennis, where people talk about both ATP & WTA, so you could find some tennis fandom talk there.

Like I said, I've been thinking about making a primer, but here's a quick preview with some of the big names (nb: not all of these women are nominated, but in interests of completeness):

Serena Williams: 33, #1 in the world, unquestionably awesome. She has incredible power and just steamrolls the competition when she's playing well. She's won 18 grand slams, starting in 1999 at the USO when she was 17, and her last one in August at this year's USO. She's also won 13 GS doubles titles (perfect record in finals), and 4 mixed doubles titles. Oh, and 4 Olympic gold medals (1 singles, 3 doubles). She's also funny, has a cute little dog, and is great friends with Caroline Wozniacki.

Venus Williams: 34, Serena's older sister. They're very close. Venus comes across more regal and Serena more bubbly, at least to me. People keep saying she's about to retire, but she keeps proving them wrong! She's won 7 Grand Slams in singles, 13 in doubles (guess who her partner was?), and 2 in mixed doubles. Oh, and 4 Olympics golds (again, the doubles ones with Serena). She has a really great tennis-dresses line. She also has Sjögren's syndrome, which makes it really amazing that she's still playing, IMO.

(Picture of Venus & Serena as baby phenoms: http://s14.postimg.org/uheb741qp/serena_venus_white_beads_4_3.jpg)

Li Na: Chinese superstar, absolutely flippin' hilarious (best pressers, hands down), I adore her. She sadly just retired, but had just won the Australian Open in January.

Maria Sharapova: Blonde, 27, Russian, rose to prominence by winning Wimbledon in 2004 at 17. She is a very canny businesswoman and has made a TON of money, recently most notably with her candy, Sugarpova, but also with endorsements and stuff. Very smart. Also kinda known as an Ice Queen? She's been in a relationship for the past 18 months with an up-and-comer on the men's tour, Grigor Dimitrov, who's gorgeous, talented, and 5 years younger than her. He is cute, good at tennis, and just a little bit camp, so the dynamic between them is kinda neat. She's definitely in charge, IMO.

Victoria Azarenka: Vika, 25, Belarussian. She's won 2 Grand Slams in singles. She's found some controversy because of questionable medical time outs (most famously, against American youngster Sloane Stephens), but she's also pretty popular. She dated RedFoo for a while, blegh, but thankfully they're broken up now. She comes across as a little ditzy (but in a self-aware way), cute, frank, and a bit naive (see, Redfoo). She has a cute disheveled braid style going on most of the time.

Agnieszka Radwanska - Aga, 25, Polish. She always seems to have a twinkle in her eye, at least to me. She's very cheerful. She also said to a question about "which superpower do you want" - "invisibility, I'd go in the men's locker room ;)", and was definitely eyeing up her cute partner at the Hopman Cup last year, so I read her as very flirty and up to jumping people. :D

Ana Ivanovic - 26, Serbian. Whenever you ask men who's the prettiest WTA player, they usually say Ana (although Genie's starting to make inroads). Very classically beautiful, has done modeling, always comes across as kinda shy to me. But she's Serbian (the Serbian tennis players are known to be pretty loud in general), so who knows. ;)

Jelena Jankovic - 29, Serbian. Oh god. I have to include JJ, because she's hilarious. Like, hilarious. Her press conferences can be legendary, kinda like Li Na's, but in a different style. She's very self-aware and can laugh at herself a lot. (For example, JJ talks about wearing makeup on court: "Here I want to look like a beast. I just want to look as scary as possible. I don't want to look all pretty and nice and dolled up. For what? I'm going to get dirty and sweaty.") She's not classically pretty but has a great smile and an amazing laugh. I also for some reason think she's probably great at dirty jokes. Oh, and she adores pink.

Eugenie Bouchard: 20, young Canadian superstar. Just made her first GS final at Wimbledon this year (lost to Petra). Is the jockiest girl on the WTA tour, which is interesting because she's also one of the most classically beautiful (blonde, statuesque, etc). She's also rumored to be happily sleeping her way through the ATP tour, lol. But in general, think very jocky, slightly awkward, but nice enough. She used to be BEST friends with Laura Robson, but they broke up last year (*tear*). You might see fix-it prompts for them, because they were seriously BFFs from like age 8 all through their teenage years, so teenage girlfriends would be legitimately a thing.

Laura Robson: Should put her next, I guess. 20, British. Really pretty in a girl-next-door way. Won Junior Wimbledon at age 14 and has been uber-popular in the UK ever since. She also won silver with Andy Murray in mixed doubles in London. She's really nice (has done some really sweet things for fans), really funny, and is pro-LGBT. Sadly she's injured right now.

Petra Kvitova: 24, Czech. Just won Wimbledon. Seems very sweet. She used to date Radek Stepanek, who is hands-down the ugliest player on the ATP tour but somehow dates tons of pretty women. I have no idea how. We try not to think about it too much. (It doesn't help that his victory dance is called "The Worm".) She's really good on grass.

Samantha Stosur: 30, Australian. Okay. Full disclosure: I adore Sammy. She has the most fabulous shoulders & arms EVER. Like. Oh god. Also she's really funny in an understated Aussie way, and she beat Serena to win a Grand Slam in 2011. Her personal trainer, Simmone, a former professional women's softball player, is rumored to be her girlfriend, and is often seen on the sidelines of Sam's matches (sometimes with a stress ball). Sadly Sam doesn't win as often as I'd like.

Sloane Stephens: 21, American. Has a rep for having a bad attitude and not really having her heart in the sport, but is really talented when she does show up & has caused some big upsets in the past. She's said some shocking things to reporters, and we're not entirely sure if she realized she was on the record.

Caroline Wozniacki: 24, Danish. Caro! She's really sweet & best buddies with Serena. She's a former World #1 but has never won a Slam. Until recently, she was engaged to be married to Rory McIlroy (the famous golfer), and they were sickeningly-sweetly in love, until Rory phoned her out of the blue the week their wedding invitations went out and dumped her. She's handled it very well, but media of course went wild. Serena took her out sunbathing and dancing and really rallied behind her. It was very sweet. She's running the NYC marathon this year the week of her would-have-been wedding, and has been doing great in tennis post-Rory. There'll probably be Caro-Serena prompts, I'd guess.

Taylor Townsend: 18, American. She's awesome. Sensible, funny, really has a head on her shoulders. She's also immensely powerful & can take your breath away with her shots. But of course she's young and still developing her game. There's been controversy surrounding her because when she was younger, the US Tennis Association told her they weren't allowing her to compete in the junior USO because she weighed too much. Nevermind that her physique was the way she was built and she obviously played great tennis (I think she was junior #1 at that point). It was a big brouhaha and everyone went "USTA, you are dicks, leave the teenager alone". She's still heavier than most of the tennis players (Serena is also built for power, but doesn't have the baby chub Taylor carries), but it hasn't affected her play and people are mostly good about it now.

Casey Dellacqua: 29, Aussie. Is primarily known for being a doubles player - she's been to 4 Grand Slam doubles finals, and won a GS mixed doubles title - but this year is having a huge career year in singles and is up to career high #26. Last August she announced out of the blue that she and her partner Amanda (nobody had known she was gay or had a partner) had just become mothers to Blake, who's adorable. (Blake with Casey: http://s1.postimg.org/4vgifpijj/Casey_Dellacqua_with_her_baby.jpg. Blake with Roger Federer: http://s18.postimg.org/oy43jne4p/federer_dellacqua300x300.jpg)

Other WTA players nominated: Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova
These are two AMAZING ex-players. Martina is awesome. I don't know enough first-hand to recap them here, but they're both two of the absolute greats of the game & have awesome personalities as well. Martina just got engaged to her girlfriend, so if you got a Chris/Martina request you might have to work around that.

Mandy Moore is also nominated - she's not a WTA player, but she dated Andy Roddick for like a year, I think. Andy later married Brooklyn Decker.

Okay, this has a lot of holes and is obviously only the roughest sketch, but it's what I could come up with off the top of my head. :DDD If you want more details on any of the players here, lemme know!

Oh, and re requests: I think someone's going to ask for Caro/Serena, and someone's going to ask for Martina/Chris. I wouldn't be surprised if someone asked for Maria/Vika, or Vika/Caro, or Maria/Grigor/another WTA player. I personally am going to ask for Sam/Simmone, but maybe also give other options, if my writer gets stuck? Like, I really love Caro/Serena too (definitely), and I'd love a gen story about Taylor and/or Laura (or a romance!), and a five-times story with Aga and her flirtations/crushes would be awesome, and BASICALLY ANYTHING. Like, I'm not into Mandy Moore, and I don't really know much about Chris/Martina. But any other WTA player in the tagset? I would love ANYTHING. Gen, romance, porn, sporty stuff, tropey stuff, five-times-fic, friends-to-lovers, woke-up-married, anything. Really. :DDDD

And seriously, if anyone requests any of these ladies, I will try my damndest to write a treat. Because I'm hella excited to see so many WTA players in the tagset. HELLA excited. We got a 13/12 ratio against the boys!!! :D #wtapower

(Okay, this may be the longest comment I've ever written. Yay for Dreamwidth and its longer comment boxes!)

Re: Catching up with past anons

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not into RPF, but I salute your enthusiasm! What a great little primer.

Re: Catching up with past anons

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

That is totally okay! I know RPF is not for everyone. :)

And thank you. <333

Re: Catching up with past anons

[(Anonymous)]

ILU, coalie.

Re: Catching up with past anons

[(Anonymous)]

ILU2. :D

Re: Catching up with past anons

[(Anonymous)]

<3

You rock, Tennis Coalie!

Re: Catching up with past anons

[(Anonymous)]

Awwww, thank you! :DDD

Re: Catching up with past anons

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you so much for this coalie! I hope to read many Tennis femmslash fics this christmas

Re: Catching up with past anons

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

You're welcome! :D And yes, I hope so too. ;)