Jon Ripley ⚽️🐤 retweeted
📆 A second date confirmed for pre-season
We will travel to face Civil Service Strollers at Christie Gillies Park on Saturday 27th June with a 3pm kick-off.
Ticket details will be announced in due course.
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Before Wimbledon. Before the Olympic golds. Before the world knew her name.
There was a public tennis court in Compton, California, with cracked concrete and no fancy equipment.
That's where Richard Williams taught his daughters to play. Venus and her younger sister Serena, ages 4 and 3, rackets sometimes literally sticking out of their strollers according to people who watched them grow up on those courts.
Compton in the 1980s was not the place tennis scouts were searching for the sport's next superstar.
But Richard Williams had read books on tennis. Watched matches. Built a plan. And he believed his daughters could become two of the greatest players the world had ever seen.
At 10, Venus moved to Florida to train at the Rick Macci Tennis Academy.
By 11, she had an unbeaten 63-0 junior record.
From cracked concrete in Compton to the record books of Wimbledon.
That is not a fairytale. That is a blueprint.
On June 17, 1980, in Lynwood, California, a girl was born who would change what the word "powerful" meant on a tennis court forever.
Today, Venus Ebony Starr Williams turns 46.
Seven Grand Slam singles titles.
Five Wimbledon trophies.
Four Olympic gold medals, more than any tennis player, male or female, in Olympic history.
She was the first Black woman to be ranked World No. 1 in the Open Era.
She did all of this while building businesses, fighting for equal pay, and still finding time to step on court in 2025, at 45, and win a match, becoming the oldest woman to win a WTA singles match in over two decades.
Happy birthday to a woman who didn't just play the game. She rewrote who was allowed to dominate it.
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Hilltop retweeted
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I love baby strollers for the aesthetics, mum can still slay along side her baby.
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As a millennial parent myself, it's not better parenting if your 10yr old is deficient in basic life skills that any normal 6yr old was previously independently doing. It's not better parenting when literal 4yr olds are being pushed around in strollers instead of walking.
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Web3 Degen retweeted
Thank you @spaceship, good to wake up to.
Is this going to be an epic stroller company? Like, YOLO for baby strollers?
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Strollers can heat up fast!☀️That’s why we never place a blanket over ou... youtube.com/shorts/yk5iAR_9X… via @YouTube
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Makerfield a bolt on dull place full of dunderheads.
Typical north west dead end town.Full of tattoed and obese idiots from watching the TV...no vox pop where the workers are just the normal afternoon shop strollers who stopped to spout ignorant angst between vaping...
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Trollers are still in their strollers and you must stop thinking about such comments. Interviewers must pledge not ask such questions either. Why?
Because it directly harms the players or athletes state of mind and then Indians won't be happy if the performance is lackluster.
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I came to think I was nonbinary because I was groomed by the trans community from age 11 to 15. Why? I never liked playing with toys, neither strollers nor dolls. And the TRAs told me that was because I was neither a boy nor a girl. Save the tomboys 💜
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