As We Enter the Final Stretch…

…consider these words from tennis champ Sloane Stephens, after her French Open semi-final win over compatriot (and good friend) Madison Keys:

“I think once I get going in a tournament, I’m pretty consistent, which is good,” she said. “I just try to keep going through the finals and just compete to the very last match.”

I dare you to bring that kind of attitude all the way through your final projects and all the way until that last hour of school on June 28.

For those of you who are tennis-minded or (if I have done my job correctly) at least tennis-curious, take a look at the contrasts in styles between the paths the two women’s finalists have took in their last matches.

World Number One Simona Halep (of Romania, in the blue) beat former French Open and Wimbledon champ Garbine Muguruza (of Spain, in the black) with a strong helping of self-belief and unrelenting aggression (you may want to turn the volume down on this one):

It wasn’t that Muguruza played badly, it was that Halep did not let her sense of focus and purpose drop for a second. What’s interesting is that this is not Halep’s usual brand of tennis: she’s more of a defender than an attacker, but she knew she had to change her plan in order to take down Muguruza.  Two points in the Interconnectivity Contest to the first person to connect that to project work. 

Tennis writer Steve Tignor has compared Sloane Stephens to a boxer, knowing just when to throw what kind of punch.  Unlike Halep, Stephens seemed almost casual in her dominance:

What kind of Term Three champ are you going to be?

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