Tuesday, December 6, 2016

2 of 3 again


My tennis team played its 5th match of the season and for the 4th time we won 2 of the 3 courts.  What happened to me--on court 1 I lost in a tie breaker.  We lost the first set 3-6, came back to win the second set 6-3 but faltered in the tie breaker.  I did not help our cause.  With 1-0 lead in the tie breaker I had an easy shot to put away and hit it wide.  On the next point my partner returned an easy shot into the net so there we were 1-2 instead of 3-0.  We ended up losing 7-10.  In those darn tie breakers a mistake here, a great shot by them there and you are in the hole that is difficult to dig out of.  The good part is we are now on top with 11 points leading second place who has 8.  There will be 6 more points to gather in the last two matches.  I sure would be nice to go into the last match, which will be against the second place team, with a 4 point lead.  I know, success breeds greed!  But what the heck there is nothing wrong in wanting to be #1, is there?
Even though I lost my match I did have some good news.  I have been working on my serve and even took a 30 min lesson last week.  I had Terry chart my first serve and second serve.  I got 82% of my first serves in a and we won 70% of those points.  On my second serve we won 75% of those and I double faulted once.  I know that is boring but being a fairly new player I am happy to improve in that aspect of the game.
Our tennis courts are about 1/4 mile away and Terry walked to and from by herself so she is making good progress.
Time to dress and get to the courts and guess what, I have enough FP to put in a cup and bring it with me.

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