A fortuitous coincidence: the U.S. Open tennis tournament, which I’ve seen bits of on television (amazing to see Novak Djokovich in action; he’s a lean tennis machine), and the appearance of Flanders and Swann’s “Tried by the Centre Court” (a song about a tennis umpire: “The umpire, on whom the sun never sets”) on my … Continue reading Tennis and double anapests