Therese Turner-Jones

Economist, strategic thinker, problem solver. Tennis fanatic. Bahamian by birth. Caribbean in spirit.

[Tennis Channel @TennisChannel]

After defeating Eala at Roland Garros, Jovic gets the best of her friend again on the grass 🌱💪

#HSBCChampionships

[victoria mboko updates @mbokodaily]

🇨🇦 [3] victoria mboko faces 🇨🇿 karolina pliskova in her singles debut at queen's club tomorrow!

their second round match is third on andy murray arena, at approximately 3pm local or 10am EST.

[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

This morning, a floral offering took place at Gaudí’s tomb in the Basilica’s crypt to commemorate the centenary of the architect’s death. A gesture of recognition, remembrance, and gratitude, conceived with simplicity, contemplation, and respect.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘foible.’
https://t.co/0DDpwMZSSH

[HSBC Championships @QueensTennis]

What a difference a year makes for @vickymboko 📈

#PIF | #WTARankings | #Partner

[🦖 @RamoFootball]

Jannik Sinner & Serena Williams will play mixed doubles together at US Open this year

[Therese Turner-Jones @thereselmm]

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[Janiel J McEwan @mcewan_janiel]

I'm not okay right now. I just need to be honest about that.

I prayed for this child. I mean I really, really prayed. Not a quick "Lord have mercy" before bed. I mean the kind of prayer where you pace the room. Where you call her name specifically. Where you bargain. Where you beg. Where you tell God every reason why this child deserves to live, as if He needed convincing. I did all of that. For weeks. For Kemelia Paul.

And she's still gone.

So what do you do with that? Where do you put that feeling? Because I don't have an answer tonight and I'm not going to pretend that I do.

Did I do enough? Did I share enough? Did I reach enough people? Could one more thread have raised enough money to change something? Could one more call to Josephine have made a difference? Could I have pushed harder, louder, earlier? These questions are eating me alive right now and I know, I KNOW, that grief makes you irrational. I know that. But knowing it doesn't stop the questions from coming.

I was a stranger to this family. I still am. I never sat in that waiting room. I never walked those hospital corridors. I never looked Kemelia in the eyes. Everything I knew about her came through a phone screen and a mother's trembling voice.

And yet this is hitting me like I knew her my whole life.

How does that happen? How does a child you never met break you this completely?

I'll tell you how. Because she was real. Because every update was real. Because the crumpled prescription was real. Because the fever was real. Because "mommy I'm cold" was real. Because the hope was real. Because I let myself believe, genuinely believe, that she was going to make it. That we were going to get a good ending. That one day I was going to post a picture of this child smiling and say, we did it. She's home.

I was going to see her this weekend. I had made up my mind. This weekend.

She didn't make it to the weekend.

I'm sorry Kemelia. I'm so deeply sorry. I tried. I want you to know that wherever you are right now, I tried. The prayers were real. The sleepless moments reading your updates were real. The weight I felt every time your mother called with bad news, that was real too.

You deserved to grow up. You deserved to finish school, fall in love, become whatever it was God put you on this earth to become. You deserved decades. You deserved everything.

Instead you got a knife meant for someone else.

And this world, this broken, violent, ungrateful world, just keeps moving like it didn't just lose someone extraordinary.

I'm not okay. And I'm not going to pretend to be.

Rest Kemelia. I'm sorry we couldn't bring you home. I'm sorry. 💔😭🕊️

[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

Nike put up a billboard in Compton of Serena Williams in honor of her comeback.

“The GOAT’s Back.”

Beautiful gesture to honor the greatest of all time in the city where she first began to play tennis on the community’s public courts.

Long live the legend.

🐐🥹

[Therese Turner-Jones @thereselmm]

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Selflessness is like leaven that makes the human, ethical, and spiritual dimensions of society grow, and it is a distinctive element of the “City of God.” In a world constantly influenced by a logic of self-interest and profit, where the term “growth” is reduced to the economic-financial sense, it is important to think and live according to a more authentic mentality that leads to integral human development. #ApostolicJourney
https://t.co/dhzpg5Qj5B

[CaribbeanNewsNetwork @caribbeannewsuk]

#JAMAICA: The Integrity Commission (IC) has released and published a certified summary of the 2024 statutory declaration for Jamaica's Opposition leader Mark Golding, covering income, assets, and liabilities for him, his spouse, and their children.

[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

Demà dia 10 de juny, quan el sol es pongui, la torre de Jesucrist quedarà il·luminada durant la seva inauguració. A partir de les 19:45 podràs seguir-ho a les nostres xarxes socials en directe!

[Therese Turner-Jones @thereselmm]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[Scott Barclay @BarclayCard18]

How do we all think Serena looked in her first match back then?

Personally, for me, judging from one singular doubles match, I reckon she could win the next 10 major titles in both singles and doubles and pick up an Olympic gold in 2028 as well...

[Sporsal @sporsAlll]

🗣️ Mario Balotelli: "Ben çocukken çok hastaydım, durumumuz kötüydü ve biyolojik ailem beni İtalyan bir aileye evlatlık verdi. Yıllarca beni arayıp sormadılar, tamamen yalnızdım.

Ne zaman ki ben futbolcu oldum, Inter'de oynamaya başladım ve milyonlar kazanıp ünlü oldum; işte o gün televizyonlara çıkıp 'Mario bizim oğlumuz, onu çok özledik' diye ağlamaya başladılar.

Bu hayattaki en büyük ikiyüzlülük. Ben sokaklarda ırkçılığa uğrarken, hastanede acı çekerken neredeydiniz? Eğer ünlü bir futbolcu olmasaydım, Brescia’da bir işçi olsaydım yine benim babam ve annem olmak isteyecek miydiniz?

Hayır. Benim tek bir ailem var, o da beni büyüten, bana bakan Balotelli ailesidir. Diğerleri sadece benim şöhretimin peşinde."

[Jon Wertheim @jon_wertheim]

Early returns are in (no pun intended) and judging from the quality of this first hour back? The average age of the @Wimbledon women’s singles draw is about to go up….

[Myles David @TunedIntoTennis]

And both won their matches 😄

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

@JessFromThe504 'Uncharted.'
https://t.co/fPXFiygXs2

[Tennis Channel @TennisChannel]

NEVER DOUBT THE GOAT 🐐

Serena Williams and Victoria Mboko advance to the HSBC Championships quarterfinals in Serena's first event since 2022 🤯

#HSBCChampionships

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

We used to post etymologies. We still do, but we used to, too.

[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

SERENA WILLIAMS THAT IS ABSURD.

44 years old.

Reflexes look better than ever.

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[Therese Turner-Jones @thereselmm]

Irony of ironies.

[LUCEA Lifestyles @LUCEACaribbean]

Barbados could be sitting on 13 billion barrels of oil.
Government officials say years of offshore exploration point to huge energy reserves that could create significant new economic opportunities 🇧🇧 https://t.co/UnPeyqiC5b