It’s been a tough few days sportswise. Stefanos Tsitsipas took the first two sets in the French Open final and looked as if he was ready to dethrone one of tennis’s 21st century rulers, but he lost the third set and, next thing you knew, he was lying next to his chair getting treatment from the trainer. This was all the encouragement Djokovic needed. Not longer after, he claimed his 19th Grand Slam title, which put him one behind Nadal and Federer.
Yesterday’s Poland-Slovakia match went a bit differently; the Slovaks scored early but Poland responded with a goal near the start of the second half. This energized the men in white-and-red until one of them was sent off with a red card. It was the equivalent of Tsitsipas lying next to his chair. Shortly after the Slovaks scored again, while the Poles – one man down – failed to find the goal.
And then Sunday night there was the Westminster Dog Show. There were four dogs in Best of Show I would have been happy to see win: the English sheepdog, the French bulldog, the German short-haired pointer, and the Samoyed. Especially the Samoyed. But first prize went to the Pekinese, a dog that has become the Novak Djokovic of the Westminster Dog Show but that looks like a shrunken and rejected Mardi Gras float. But unlike Tsitsipas and the Poles, the Samoyed could not have cared less.
