A Birdie in France

A narrated 'diorama' of an iconic 'event' in pro-women's sports reflecting social view(s) on distance(s).

A toast to competition-IQ and storytelling featuring a reference of the iconic Graf-Seles rivalry in women's tennis and inspired very loosely by Pawn Sacrifice (Ed Zwick). Enjoy, 

DISCLAIMER: I've no personal/business ties to the sports/individuals referenced in this work of civilization diorama and cast this only as a presentation of media distance. 

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I've been an 'avid-fan' of women's tennis for some time now, especially because the quality of women's tennis creates a special view of competitive spirits, since it's somewhat less 'rough' than men's tennis and hence generates longer rally-points and general serve-volley contiguity. As a 'pirate' fan of media-broadcast era of sports, I find women's tennis worthy of Facebook-IQ and consider myself a 'nerdist' of women's sports-writing and even pose myself as a costumed pirate ('Storm-Shadow') for the US Open, the final Grand Slam women's tennis tourney before the Halloween season.

However, this story isn't about the US Open but the early summer French Open tennis event, which is held in Roland-Garros Stadium in France. The story concerns the women's tennis rivalry between longstanding #1 Grand Slam dominating German superstar Steffi Graf and the emerged/risen Yugoslavian phenom who shockingly usurped/displaced Graf's unbeatable grip on pro-tennis, and the 1992 French Open final, which Seles won 6-2, 3-6, 10-8. The 3rd set 'marathon' long-scoreline gives you a glimpse of the 'intrigue' potentially generated at Roland-Garros for women's tennis every year!

SPORTS-WRITER: No one could/would stand against indomitable Graf; she won everything; when Seles rose, it was revelation.

So, why go to this trouble, you ask, in re-presenting this iconic French Open women's tennis 'event' featuring the watershed Graf-Seles rivalry which affected the way we conceived of competition-IQ in the media-broadcast era and redefined our 'childish' notions of what comprises 'true' democratic ambition? Well, the nature of competition itself speaks to how the arrays of challenge create 'storybook' imagery regarding the ups/downs/mediums of emotional envy.

SPORTS-WRITER: After seeing the 1992 French Open women's tennis championship, I got a new women's sports home-painting!

We all know of the arduous history of women's participation in sectors/dominions of working/thinking civilization. The female race had grown out of the hunter-gatherer model of early-man (pre-civilization!) and contributed in various areas of social/working life, including factory production, music/arts, and eventually competitive athletics. This of course paralleled/facilitated the role women played in social politic/governance and thereby history itself! That's what this story/diorama is really about --- perspectives in democracy!

There are so many 'famous' women in history --- Cleopatra, Bonnie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Hillary Clinton, Indira Gandhi, Monica Seles (etc.). Considering the ways these women have 'accented' the manners of social thought and ideations of competition-consciousness, and hence capitalism itself, (arguably) informs our enlightenment regarding social-media era use of various 'democracy' tools re-presenting social pluralism (e.g., Facebook-chess!). I, for one, consider the Graf-Seles rivalry a 'canon' of civilization diary. Don't you?

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