after my annual tradition of becoming obsessed with tennis during/after the AO, I decided to read some tennis fiction!!!! I'm pretty sure I basically finished this in one day when it was nice and sunny I just sat out in the park and cranked this one out! this is about our main girlie (forgot her name) who's like no. 20 in the world and in her first round playing wimbledon this was fun but villains were cartoonishly evil and there were lots of random little mistakes. in the first round of wimbledon, she plays the "lone british seeded player" who is ranked 55 (which ig is technically possible but I don't think would/has ever happened???) but then she makes mention of the fact that she herself is ranked 30 spots above her opponent which would also make her a seeded player so how are they versing each other in the first round of a slam? also the narrator mentions that since she travels so much she sometimes doesn't realise what city she's in and once sent an email to some people explaining her beautiful car ride from the abu dhabi airport to the hotel only for someone to respond that she's not in abu dhabi until next week. BUT THEN a few chapters later, it opens with a musing the fact that travel messes with players heads and that sometimes when they wake up, they don't know where they are but then we get this quote "the truth was she always knew exactly where she was, whether it was a hotel room in singapore or a short-term sublet in wimbledon village or a cramped seat on a slight across the pacific". so what's the deal. does she know where she is or does she not. it was little mistakes like this that took me out of the story as well as the fact that it was casually misogynistic at times and imo didn't treat it's gay characters with respect/give them depth besides being closeted and sad. 3 stars