Feb. 3 Rainy Tennis Day.

February 3, 2019, Sunday - Tennis.

The forecast was rain from noon.  In the past, the weather held well past the predicted rain, but today, the rain started earlier than forecast, but, it was more of an on and off light drizzle type of rain.  So, I went to the court and sure enough, there were a few diehard members getting ready to start the practice.  At the most, eight members were there, so instead of doing drills, we just played matches.  At the beginning after warming up some, and there were only seven members, we started playing a doubles match on one court and a singles match on the other.  I was playing in the singles match.  I was playing one of the top players in the club.  But I was feeling good.  But, unfortunately, my serve wasn't feeling the same way.  I served first, and I promptly double-faulted over have the points away, but I was able to work to 30-40, but another double fault doomed me.  But I came back and I was able to break his serve and tie it a 1-1.  My serve was still way off and the double-faults kept coming and I dropped the next game and he held.  I was down 1-3.  Then, in my next service game, I was still not hitting good serves and I lost the last game, unable to hold any of my service games.  I was very disappointed, but aside from my serve, I was relatively satisfied with my play.  Out of the five games we played, three of them when to a deciding point with me winning one and losing two.  The other two games I got to 30, so I wasn't getting skunked.  But one of these times, I will be serving well and stroking well and I will win.

My second match was a doubles match and I was partnered with a guy who is good but extremely erratic.  Not to put all the blame on him because I missed my share of shots, but on three game points he totally shanked easy, or what should have been easy put-away shots.  We should have won 4-1, but we ended up losing 3-4.

In the final match of the day, I was paired with the partner I had for my last tournament.  And we played well together.  Up until the tournament, whenever we were paired together, we just couldn't win.  But now, we play really well together and it is fun.  We were playing a pair that is, on paper, better than we are, but we just outplayed them today. and we took the match 4-2.  It was just about two hours when the rain started to really come down and the clay court started getting too muddy for play to be safe, so we called it a day.

In the end, due to a shortened Tennis day, I burned only 1352 kcals.  Short of the Sunday average by over one thousand.  I'll have to make up that deficit somehow.