February 23, 2019, Saturday - Tennis Match Practice.
It was a beautiful day today. Temperatures were on the cool side as opposed to the cold side along with a good dose of warmth for most of the daylight hours. In the evening, it did get quite cool and chilly but not freezingly so.
Tonight's practice was with one of the other teams playing in the tournament tomorrow. There were supposed to be only four of us there, but one guy, without his partner, wanted to come and practice so there ended up being five of us. After a good warmup, the two full teams started a match. I was thinking we would crush the other team, but it ended up being a pretty close match. We won 6-4, but we had a lot of good rallies and points. Since the other team likes to play a form of granny tennis, it was good practice for me for tomorrow. What is Granny tennis? Well, it is the style of tennis that is played by a lot of teams down where I am, and I hate it. Another name for it is "Moonball" tennis. Basically, it is just lobbing back and forth. That isn't really tennis for me. I like a more aggressive style of play. I can handle pace and power, but I tend to overhit the wimpy balls because they just sit up. After I hit a few balls out or into the net, I get conservative and I start to lob as well. When that happens, it is just not any fun. So it was a good practice.
Then, to get the odd man out, I bowed out and let him partner with my son. My son and he won 6-2. Then I came back and partnered with my son and a guy from the other team bowed out and let the odd man out play. My son and I won 6-2. I started to feel my stroke coming back and I was striking moonballs with power and depth.
The odd man out left and then we had time for a final match. It was a good match that my son and I won 6-3. I am feeling good and confident about our chances tomorrow. The weather is forecast to be just like today, so conditions are primed for a good tournament for us.
In the end, I burned a good 1682 kcals. It was a good burn.
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