February 27, 2019, Wednesday - Tennis.
My son came with me to this practice because we thought the we would be able to play more matches. He has one more tournament with another guy in March before he leaves for school. Luckily, the club had reserved 3 courts in the second hour so we would be able to play matches. With three courts we thought that two courts would be drill courts and one would be for matches, but this time, because the numbers were low, we got two courts for matches. So the match call went out, "Anyone who wants to play matches come to this side." There just happened to be 8 people. I thought I could pair with my son, but we went with "Rock-Paper-Scissors" to decide partners. My son got a strong partner, I got an okay partner, and the strongest player got the weakest girl and the strongest girl got a consistent but not powerful guy.
My team played the top guy and weak girl first. In this match, I was feeling I needed to pull back on my serve for the girl so I did, but I ended up double faulting too much and lost my serve. But we eventually won the match 4-1. My son and his partner won their match so we were up against them next. I honestly thought we didn't have a chance, so I decided to just hit out but with as much control as possible. We lost the first game right off with my partner serving. My son was serving next, but miracle of miracles, we actually were able to break his serve to tie it at 1-1. My serve just happened to turn on and I easily won my game. Game count 2-1. When my son served again, he aced me hard. All his aces he hit since we've been playing were down the "T". I didn't want to get aced so I was crowding the "T". But he got his wide serve going and aced me out wide. I was shocked. Everyone held their serve after that to 3-3. It was my serve and the match was on my racket. We played several good points to Deuce. The deciding point and our opponent gets to choose the side I serve to. Of course they chose my son to receive my serve. Classic one point wins all scenario. I made the toss, racket back, swing... I aced my son to win the match!!! What did I do? I figured my son would be expecting me to go for the ace so he was back and kind of waiting for a wide serve. I went through my normal service motion, but I actually hit a dink serve. I just barely made it over the net. My son was obviously taken by surprise because his reaction was delayed by just a moment. When I started to move forward, it was too late and the ball had bounced twice. ACE!!! Oh, it felt good to get that win! We played one more match but we were pumped and we weren't going to lose anything tonight. We took the last match 4-0. This is the first "All Victory" practice for me in a long time, so I was very happy.
In the end, I burned a good 1689 kcals. I little higher than average for a Wednesday.
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