今日のウインブルドンの準々決勝で、イギリス期待の星、ティム・ヘンマンがストレートセットで負けてしまった。相手は格下でノーシードの二十歳のクロアチア人。かなりびっくりだ。昼間の試合だったので、同僚のダニーも私も、インターネットの速報で試合を追っていた。第一セットをタイブレイクで失うと、後はあまり抵抗なく負けてしまったのだ。私がヘンマンが好きなのは、西洋人にめずらしく（偏見だろうが）彼が粘り強いからだ。すごく飛びぬけてうまい選手ではないのだが、とにかくしぶといから見ていて面白い。ところが今日はあっという間に負けてしまった。
昨日は杉山愛がやはり準々決勝で、同じく18歳(?)のロシア人に負けた。多分、ヘンマンも杉山も同じぐらいの２０代後半だと思う。今朝の日本の新聞には、杉山は一回り年齢の違う対戦相手の若さに負けたみたいに書かれていた。１０歳ぐらいしか違わないのに、若さがなんて言われてしまうのね。私が今後付き合うことになるお母さんたちは２０歳ぐらい違うってことあるわけだよなあ…ってなんだかおどおどしてしまう。
明日は初めて Midwife（助産婦）とのアポイントメントがある。どんな出産方法から選択できるのか聞くつもりだ。せめて無痛分娩はしたい。
Tim Henman lost today at Quarter finals with a straight sets by an unseeded 20 year old Croatian. It was a quite surprising lost. They played during the day and my colleague Danny and I were both following the score on the internet. After Tim lost the first set with a tiebreak, he was outplayed by the Croat in the remaining sets. One of the reason I support Tim is he does not easily give up. He tries to get any single point to cling to the game. In my 'biased' opinion, it is very unusual for the Westerners! He is not a really superb player but because of his attitude of 'never give up', his games are always entertaining. He lost quite easily today, though.
Another young, about 18 years old, Russian girl beat Japanese Sugiyama at Women's singles yesterday. Sugiyama and Henman must be around the same age, in their late 30s. In today's Japanese newspaper, it is said that Sugiyama lost to the age difference. They are only about 10 years different but public think Sugiyama is 'old'. This is really terrible. The mothers I will mix with in the future though my child will probably 20 years younger than me.... This is a bit scary....
I am having my first appointment with my midwife tomnorrow. I am going to ask her what choices I have on delivery. I at least want to chose non-pain delivery.
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