The Naads Bulletin

August is almost done, and the court time is still piling up. Nadia racked up 12 sessions and over thirteen hours of work this week, burning enough calories to fuel a small army of hungry teenage tennis players — or at least one very hungry one. The biggest single effort came on Tuesday: 100 minutes, a strain of 16.4, and her heart rate peaking at 187. That's the kind of session that leaves you speechless and reaching for the oats.

The ladder, meanwhile, is playing hard to get. She sits at No. 2 in Bedfordshire's 14U rankings with 1,618 points, just one point behind the leader. One point. That feels like the kind of cruel joke the universe likes to tell at 8am on a school day. No movement this week, but no backwards step either.

There was a birthday somewhere in the past month — the photo gallery remembers it fondly, a cake moment worth revisiting. And even with 431 visitors swinging by the site, the wall stayed quiet. No new notes. No scores posted. Just the hum of the training machine.

Next up: Road to Wimbledon, All England Club, SW19. The countdown says -29 days, which the calendar insists means it's already passed, but the dream doesn't do arithmetic. It just keeps showing up to practice.