I'll call this day, "180" day. Why? Because that is the way I played today. Last week, I was above 80% for first serve percentage. Today, I'm lucky if I hit 10%. Last week, I didn't double fault until my 6th or 7th service game. Today, I hit two double faults or more in every service game. Last week I won all my service games. Today, I lost all but one. The only good thing is that I was playing the game okay. What should have been an easy win was a hard fought loss. Even with no-ad scoring, the first set alone took over 45 minutes. Another bright point was in the one service game I did win. I was down 15-40 and came back with some well placed and powerful serves to win the game. But my performance was 180 degrees in the wrong direction to what it was last week. I was just off today.
I'm not making any excuses, but when I woke up this morning, my middle back, the muscles right next to my scapulas were feeling pretty sore. Not like debilitatingly sore, but I could feel them like never before. It was uncomfortable, but it felt good in a way because it was a sign to me that I did some good work yesterday. I don't know, but it is possible that that sort of hindered my serve form or rotation. Oh and one more thing, I sort of got injured while retrieving a stray ball from the stage area. I jumped up, planted my foot like I always do, but I stepped on a slippery spot and as my foot slipped out from under me, my other ankle came crashing into the edge of the stage. It seemed like just a scrape, but when I got home, something weird happened. It grew!
From this perspective, it doesn't look like much, but it is raised up almost an inch. Just before going into the shower I showed it to my wife and it was flat. When I got out of the shower it was like, HUGE!!! It kind of freaked me out, but then not. I've been icing it all night and it is about half-way to flat now. I'm a little worried that it is going to hurt like crazy tomorrow. But we'll see when tomorrow comes.
In the end, I torched a good 1100+kcals. Love me some tennis. Next sport, Pickle-Ball on Thursday!
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