of a tennis player, hiker, writer |
I won my match Tuesday night. Granted, it took me three sets and almost four hours to do it, but I did! I even had a new partner – which can sometimes be frustrating cuz of the communication thing so important in doubles. We ironed ours out quickly and won the first set 7-5. Not easy, but fun, with lots of long points and great shots. Second set I sucked. My partner was dead on her game, but what can she do? With me constantly taking my eye off the ball right before contact? Just call me little MissHit. We lost 3 – 6. Format calls for a full third set and my bladder called for a bathroom break. I used this time to focus, came back and played much better – even surprising myself running down and making shots not typical of my regular play. I won all my service games – even though they all went to deuce a bahzillion and one times. At 6-all we had to play a set tiebreak – you know, the first to seven by two? I served the first point. I play pretty relaxed in these tiebreak situations xuz it means it could go either way. Especially in this particular instance as I had greatly stepped up my groundstroke game. (Which was good, too – since my net game went to pot somewhere during the end of the first set). I told myself to have fun, no matter what the outcome, i played my best. We were down 4-6 with our opponents serving for the match, but we came back to win the tiebreak 8-6 thus winning the match. And, to put icing on the win cake – we won as a team, too – 2-1! Woooohoooooo. Now, where’s my Hornsby’s? |