{"id":5975,"date":"2018-06-07T19:15:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T02:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/?p=5975"},"modified":"2018-06-07T19:15:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T02:15:55","slug":"as-we-enter-the-final-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/2018\/06\/07\/as-we-enter-the-final-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"As We Enter the Final Stretch&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;consider these words from tennis champ Sloane Stephens, after her French Open semi-final win over compatriot (and good friend) Madison Keys:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think once I get going in a tournament, I\u2019m pretty consistent, which is good,\u201d she said. \u201cI just try to keep going through the finals and just compete to the very last match.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s finalists have took in their last matches.<\/p>\n<p>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):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lJ8Sqa61FQg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t that Muguruza played badly, it was that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com\/pro-game\/2018\/06\/simona-halep-garbine-muguruza-french-open-semifinals-2018\/74494\/\">Halep did not let her sense of focus and purpose drop for a second<\/a><\/strong>. What&#8217;s interesting is that this is not Halep&#8217;s usual brand of tennis: she&#8217;s more of a defender than an attacker, but she knew she had to change her plan in order to take down Muguruza. &nbsp;Two points in the Interconnectivity Contest to the first person to connect that to project work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tennis writer Steve Tignor has <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com\/pro-game\/2018\/06\/sloane-stephens-madison-keys-2018-french-open-roland-garros\/74497\/\">compared Sloane Stephens to a boxer<\/a><\/strong>, knowing just when to throw what kind of punch. &nbsp;Unlike Halep, Stephens seemed almost casual in her dominance:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RLVE5Fq6S4E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What kind of Term Three champ are you going to be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;consider these words from tennis champ Sloane Stephens, after her French Open semi-final win over compatriot (and good friend) Madison Keys: \u201cI think once I get going in a tournament, I\u2019m pretty consistent, which is good,\u201d she said. \u201cI just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/2018\/06\/07\/as-we-enter-the-final-stretch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5976,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions\/5976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}