Reg­u­lar (dream) Wel­ling­tonista ten­nis doubles part­ner Daniela Hantuchova demon­strates the cor­rect attire for our weekly Sunday morn­ing hit around. Pic­ture court­sey of Vedia at Flickr.

Hataitai Park, a bril­liant sunny day, and the gentle thwack and thwock of ten­nis balls inter­spersed with the bird­song com­ing from the sur­round­ing trees, provides the per­fect soundtrack for the weekly doubles match.

For some people at least. Oth­ers, it would seem, require the latest and greatest hip-hop beats to be played at top volume from their SUV parked beside the nearby net­ball court to truly cre­ate the cor­rect play­ing atmo­sphere. Not that we have any­thing against Missy, Kanye, Fiddy et. al., it’s just that we prefer to hear them in the com­fort of our own home, when we choose to listen, and not as an enforced exer­cise while we’re try­ing to impress the people on the court next to us with the speed of our ever-improv­ing ser­vice. It’s just dis­tract­ing, isn’t it?