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racquettechie.bsky.social
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@racquettechie.bsky.social
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A lifetime spent on the tennis court and behind a racquet stringing machine, restringing souls one racquet at a time. All photos taken by me, unless reposts of others. A west coast member of the #EastCoastKin Arts Collective
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𝙹𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚢 @racquettechie.bsky.social · Dec 30
A journey in a 🧵……
racquettechie.bsky.social 𝙹𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚢 @racquettechie.bsky.social · Dec 30
For those who just met me, my tennis stringing journey began long ago. In 2020 I summoned the courage to dig out my dad’s stringing machine from more than 30 years of storage. This, for me, is where it began, in 1973. Still love to string 51 years & more than 85,000 string jobs later #ThanksDad 🙏🎾❤️
racquettechie.bsky.social
Evening calls 🌹
#ColorADay #RedWed #photography #bloomscrolling
#eastcoastkin
A red rose, close up, in the shadows of evening.
August 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
racquettechie.bsky.social
An article from June 1983 about the late Warren Bosworth aka “The Wizard of Boz”. A legendary pioneer of tennis racquet stringing & customization. I’ll be stringing his adult daughter’s tennis racquet today, so here’s to you Mr Bosworth 🕊️ 🥂 vault.si.com/vault/1983/0...
Then Zing Go The Strings
Warren Bosworth, roused from his wee-hour slumber by the harsh jangling of the telephone in his Glastonbury, Conn. Dutch Colonial house, padded groggily into
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August 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
racquettechie.bsky.social
Cotton candy clouds at sunset
#BlueTue #photography #eastcoastkin
Clouds turned pink, and the sky darker shades of blue, as the sun set tonight. A lone palm tree, center, and foliage in silhouette spread across the lower border of the image.
August 13, 2025 at 5:03 AM
racquettechie.bsky.social
The sun sets on Tuesday
#BlueTue #photography #EastCoastKin
Gazing up at a redwood (?) as I head home from work. The blue sky painted with clouds of light orange, yellow, and pink as the sun readies to set.
August 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
racquettechie.bsky.social
Linespeople are far from perfect, but I do miss their human touch in #tennis
benrothenberg.bsky.social Ben Rothenberg @benrothenberg.bsky.social · Aug 13
Electronic line calling failures have been piling up, including one moment in Cincinnati where video review had to be used to determine if a ball had landed in or out.

This technology is not only not what it's cracked up to be: it's cracking.

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"Out" With Electronic Line Calling in Tennis
Another moment in Cincinnati shows that live electronic line calling is still not up to the job it was entrusted to do in tennis.
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August 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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craigisphotos.bsky.social
Remembering Robin Williams ( July 21, 1951 - August 11, 2014).
August 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
racquettechie.bsky.social
Some color for your TL on this #MacroMonday 💜 #photography #bloomscrolling #eastcoastkin
A macro view of purple African daisies in a garden
August 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
racquettechie.bsky.social
Wouldn’t mind seeing Emma Raducanu come through and win this match against Aryna Sabalenka #tennis
August 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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jeanmarie8.bsky.social
Another from my morning stroll at dawn on Mirror Lake in Lake Placid, NY

#stunday #mirrorlake #lakeplacid #adirondacks #adk #photography #eastcoastkin #sunrise #landscapephotography #naturephotography
August 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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loveemmarose.bsky.social
None of us needs to feel alone in our concern about #ClimateChange

89% of people around the world want more #ClimateAction

89%!!!

Do you?

👉 yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/06/the-...

#smArtist #GlobalWarming #Photography #Flower #Nature #NatureLover #Climate #Eco #Stunday #ArtYear #BeTheChange
White Phlox flowers in bloom in front of a dark background. Photo by the author of this post, Emma Rose (Purposeful Poetry)
August 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
racquettechie.bsky.social
Looking across the park after hitting some tennis balls, I see young kids in the distance w/ their parents at the playground. As a parent of young adults, this view, distant and a little out of focus, captures how that time in my life feels at this moment. Even so, the laughter still makes me smile❤️
Looking across the park to a playground in the distance. Little kids playing, with their parents nearby. Like the photo, that time of parenthood in my life feels somehow distant and out of focus too; but the sounds of children laughing carries, and makes me smile still. 😊❤️
August 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
racquettechie.bsky.social
Had one of my older #tennis racquets painted by #CustomTennisRacquet 😊🎾
One of my older tennis racquets, a Dunlop Aerogel 4D 500 Tour, got a new metallic white paint job by #CustomTennisRacquet. Has a mother-of-pearl appearance. I strung it with a Solinco Mach-10/Hyper-G Round hybrid. 🎾
August 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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handcranked.bsky.social
Happy #Stunday! If you saw my abstract post from yesterday, this is where it was. Secret Slickrock trail in Sedona.

#ColorADay #OrangeSun

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#ArtYear #MobilePhotography
Cathedral Rock in Sedona reflected in a large curved puddle as the sun sets. The rocks are glowing orange and the puddle looks like mercury. The beautiful buttes are set against a pale, blue sky with a bit of bright yellow on the right side.
August 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
racquettechie.bsky.social
#SelfPortraitSunday for the theme of #BookshelfSelf #FirstSelfPortrait
#tennis #Paris #AHandfulOfSummers #photography #eastcoastkin
The first self portrait I can remember taking. Paris 1997. Waited two weeks for the film to come back from Kodak to see if it turned out, upon return home to the US. #AHandfulOfSummers 🎾#BookshelfSelf
August 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
racquettechie.bsky.social
A new day begins
#photography #morninglight
Morning light streaming through the back door window shines softly on a shallow white bowl, overflowing with lemons from the backyard.
August 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
racquettechie.bsky.social
Imagine beating Coco Gauff, Elena Rybakina, and Naomi Osaka, all Slam Champions, en route to winning your first tournament on Tour. Victoria Mboko, you are a shining Star
✨ 👏 👏 🏆 🎾 🇨🇦 #VictoriousMboko
Canadian Victoria Mboko, hands on cheeks in joyful amazement at winning her first WTA title. #Montreal 🇨🇦 Victoria Moboko raises the WTA Montreal Champion’s trophy above her head, and smiles brightly ✨
August 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
racquettechie.bsky.social
Venus Williams, at 45, can still compete with players on tour
half her age. Phenomenal ✨ #tennis
August 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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breeze420.bsky.social
wow🤍
when I posted about my son's health problems
I was so messed up I just blurted it out
later I felt bad for sharing personal sadness on here
but wow
all the amazing support and love is astounding
thanks to all of you
it really does help💙
August 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
racquettechie.bsky.social
Have a great day my friends 😊🌈
#photography #rainbows
Sunshine and water across a neighbor’s yard making a rainbow 🌈
August 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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thatsoleelee.blacksky.app
Both were unseeded for the tournament and yet this is still as exciting as it gets #OBN2025
August 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
racquettechie.bsky.social
Youth is fleeting 🎈 #photography
Two giant gold balloons, having drifted from the dining room, from my son’s 25th birthday party. The number 2 levitates in the middle of the living room, the number 5 floating flat up against the ceiling. Youth is fleeting.
August 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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tennisnewstpn.bsky.social
Osaka reaches the Montreal final with a 6-3, 7-6 win over Tauson.

Plays Mboko for the title.

Who predicted this final?

#tennis
August 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
racquettechie.bsky.social
There’s hope this administration won’t last
With the “news” that “One gene reveals clues to why humans thrived and Neanderthals didn’t” there’s hope that this administration won’t last
August 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
racquettechie.bsky.social
Sooo good 👏👏 🎾 💙
www.lapresse.ca/sports/tenni...
Omnium Banque Nationale | Victoria Mboko en finale
Victoria Mboko étirera le plaisir jusqu’à la toute fin. La Canadienne a décroché son billet pour la finale de l’Omnium Banque Nationale en battant la Kazakhe Elena Rybakina, mercredi, en demi-finale.
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August 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
racquettechie.bsky.social
“If I had a day
That I could give you
I’d give to you
The day just like today…” 🕊️ 🌹❤️
~ 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗢𝗻 𝗠𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀
𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿
A bird soared into view, and circled, high in the clear blue sky above my mom’s back yard, just as I took the photo a few years ago when I was helping my mom and her husband ready for a move cross country. Red roses, named for my late young niece Kelly, bloom in the foreground. Maybe, just maybe, that beautiful bird who joined us was the spirit of Kelly. 🕊️ 🌹❤️
August 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM