So round 1 in the 5.0 I played against my friend Gill. Who is fantastic, so much fun and soo nice. BUT I was literally a basket case. I don't tihnk I have ever been so nervous in my life! Then to make matters worse they put us on centre court..LOL So I kind of lost it. The first set was over in an instant but I kind of started to get a grip on things halfway through the second but unfortunately ran out of time. She ended up making it to the final and coming in 2nd for that category. At first I was really really disappointed in how I played, but the next day I was fine with it. I've only been playing again for about 4-5 months and playing a tournament takes an incredible amount of mental and physical preparedness. So the things I need to work on are so minor so I'm looking forward to playing her again sometime :)
So then I played on Satruday in the Open category (the top category, one up from 5.0) and I was really happy with how I played. I played against a younger girl from Calgary and she could realy hit the ball. Every single game went back and forth from deuce at least 4 times....the first game of the match took almsot 10 minutes because we went to deuce over 10 times LOL! But not being as tournament ready as her I was unable to capitalize on those points. I lost 6-2, 6-2 but I was really really happy with how I played. We were having a nice big slugfest out there jsut cranking the ball back and forth :)
Too bad for everyone..but the wind was terrible this weekend. I pulled my stomach muscle again going after some bad serve tosses that were getting carried in the wind. So by my match that night at 7pm I was hurting pretty badly. I took a bunch of advil, slathered A535 all over my stomach but it didn't help. I pulled it even worse at the beginning of my 7pm match and had to withdraw. I can actaully barely move right now. Can't really turn over in bed etc...So priority #1 today is calling a sports injury clinic. I need to get this figured out, its been plaguing me for about 5 weeks now off and on...
So all in all it went fine, I'm glad I have the first out of the way and I won't go through the crazy nervousness again. I'm hoping I'll be ready to play the next tourney at the end of July. We'll see what physio says. I was really flattered that so many people wanted to know who I was LOL! The tennis world on the prairies is quite small so appearing out of the blue was kind of fun haha.
I talked to my coach and he agreed I won't play 5.0 anymore..its just way to frustrating playing people gerneally quite below your level..because your level of game goes down so much. So it looks like I'll jsut be playing Open singles and doubles/mixed from now on. I'm really happy he wholeheartedly agrees with that. I'm doing this for fun and fitness, I dont' want to go and play patty cake out there..I want to slug the ball and run down big shots and make big shots :)
So at first I'll probably lose all the time in Open, but it won't be by much AND at least I will have fun doing it. I'll be getting an indoor membership asap and start dedicating a lot more free time to tennis, which wil msot likely mean me not playing vball this year. But I actaully feel okay about that. I didn't realize how much I missed tennis and how good it feels to be out there. (not to mention such incredible exercise)
Brett had his hands full with the boys so only Karlynn managed to snap some pics. Theres 2 on her blog at http://kadeandivy.blogspot.com/2007/06/tennis.html
A dad of one of the juniors was out taking pictures on the weekend with a lense as long as my arm haha, and he said that he took some of me. So if they aren't hideous I'll post them when I get them. So here are some I took of other people over the weekend. Mr baldy bald is my coach.( this was actualyl a memorial tourney for his dad who died of cancer and most of the entries go to cancer research. Carson grows his hair all year then shaves it at the tourney and we all pledge money so now he is bald lol)
Edmonton has a huge population of these massive jackrabbits. There were a bunch on the grass around the courts and Cooper thought it was mona. So arms outstretched he was running after them shouting "MOMAH!!! MOMAH!!!"
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