6-05-17 (Monday) Tennis.

6-05-17 (Monday) Tennis.

Today was my regular tennis day!  Glad to be able to play regularly again.  I wish I could play regularly in the second semester, too.  But since I have no class on the smaller campus then, no joy.  So I'll just make the best of it now.

I think that time playing with my wife was a great warm up for me last week because I played great and served great last week.  This week, without that playing time with my wife on Sunday, I felt the difference.  Plus, my chest was rather sore from yesterday's workout, so that may have had a little influence on my play today.

Today was a 50% day.  I lost every other service game and won each following game.  I wasn't serving badly, but the shot choices afterward were just not good.  Plus, I was just unable to get into a rhythm.  I lost my first game pretty badly, but I did have an ace in that game.  In my next service game, it went to 40-40 so the next point was the deciding point.  We play using No-Ad Scoring to keep the time down.  I hit a CANON SERVE!!! BOOM!!! Right at the body and although there was a little contact, there was no chance that ball was coming back.  Felt so good.  There was one other shot that I read perfectly, but it was risky.  My partner hit a really short lob right to the net person.  I felt he was going to go down the middle, so at the last moment, I moved to the middle and hit the most awesome reaction volley EVER!!!  Everyone was speechless that I had actually gotten that ball back.  Unfortunately, we lost that set 5-6.  The one shot that was so off today was my service return.  The serves I was getting weren't that hard or placed particularly well, but I was either netting them or hitting them out.  I was pretty vexed by that.  If I was just hitting the returns better, I'm sure we could have won more games and possibly the set.  The second set was bad.  We went down 0-4, but then I won my next service game and then broke in the next game.  We got it to 2-4, but that was all.   It was a lot of fun, but it would have been more fun if I had won at least one set.  Oh well.

In the end, I torched another Grand+.  1160+kcals to be precise.  It was a good day, and I'm loving it!