8-03-17 (Thursday) Tennis.

8-03-17 (Thursday) Tennis.

I planned way in advance for this day to be a tennis day.  I was told on Monday that it was moved to Wednesday.  I was thinking about trying to change my schedule again to accommodate a Wednesday Tennis Day, but yesterday got the call that it was back on Thursday, so here we are, a regular Tennis Day!

I wanted to get to the gym earlier, but things got busy and I was late.  But when I got there, there were seven members present.  Four were playing a match and three were just drilling.  I guess they don't want to play Cut throat, or two against one tennis.  So they were happy that I arrived.  Unfortunately, I didn't get a good warm up, so I was forced to warm up during the match, and that showed.  As for my serve, I was at about 40% and I lost all my service games in that first set.  I just couldn't get it going.  I hit some good serves and then some double faults.  But I was just not stroking the ball well either.  But despite that, it was a pretty close set.  We lost 4-6.  In the second set, I was thoroughly warmed up and I was striking the ball much better, and my serve just clicked.  But I lost it in my third service game which I lost.  But we ended up winning the set 6-5.  That is with no ad scoring.  I usually complain about the temperature in the gym.  It was hot, but not as has as the past few sessions.  Today, all the windows were open and we were feeling the affects of another typhoon approaching.  There was a lovely breeze blowing through the gym intermittently but that brought down the overall temperature in the gym to a bearable level.  Around the high 80's.  I was sweating, but not puddling or dripping.  I also didn't feel totally dead while playing.  It was nice to have a little more energy during play.

In the end, I torched over 1100kcals in just over two hours.  It was a good session.  Not great, but I think I was able to workout some rust from my game.  Oh, I also wanted to try out my new Kick Serve and it was every effective.  A new serve for my arsenal.  I feel ready for Sunday's tournament.