Texas Open Warmup Tournament: Day 1

I am so tired. I feel that I will start to cramp at any moment so let give you a rundown of the first day.

1st match: 9am

I started awesome. I won the first set 6-1, and I was feeling good about the way I was playing. I had 5 aces and I just knew that the next set would be a piece of cake. I was wrong.

I was up 2-0, and that's where everything fell apart. My serve was broken, crazy shot selections, and just overall bad play. I ended up losing 5-7. I was not happy after losing the second set.

I got pissed at myself and decided just to play big. The 3rd set was a super tiebreaks, meaning the first person with 10 points wins. I ended up winning 10-5, but something funny happened when it was 9-4. I hit a forehand in the corner and I pumped my first and started to celebrate ... then the BALL CAME BACK! I was popping Champale in my mind and ended up losing the point. I won the next point and then celebrated again.

Final score: 6-1, 5-7, (10-5)

2nd match: 1:30pm

While driving home after winning the first match, I stopped by the grocery store to pickup some ingredients to make banana bread. I have overripe bananas in my kitchen so I decided to make some bread to avoid throwing them away.

Finished product ... want a slice?
I went into the store and it was partly cloudy ... I came out and it was a downpour. There was flooding throughout the city. It this was at 11:30am.

At 1:30pm, there was sunny skies and all the streets where bone dry. Dallas has the weirdiest weather.

Anyway...

The 2nd round match was a rematch, of sorts. I played my opponent a couple of months ago in a different tournament (he beat me 6-7, 5-7). So I knew this would be an interesting match. Because of the rain, matches were delayed 45 minutes. I met my opponent we shook hands and acknowledge our past match a couple of months ago. We get on the court, and because of the rain we had to being each set at 2-2. I won the first set 6-4 but I was worried that I would play horribly in the second set. I did ... sort of.

I was up 5-4 with a match point, and I ended up losing that game. I eventually got back in the lead at 6-5 and was up 40-00 with 3 match points. I ended up losing 2 points so it was 40-30. I was able to win the next point when my opponent hit a backhand wide.

Oh, did I mention my opponent was gay. Well, his is. Our last meeting we had a long chat after I noticed he had a towel from a gay tournament in Austin. But he is the type of gay that doesn't like non-straight-acting gay men who aren't into sports. I asked to see if he would joining the Texas Open, and he said

"No because the gay tournaments have too much drama!"

And that was the end of that conversation.

He mentioned that I improved a lot since our last meeting. I guess all of the practicing has paid off.

The final round is tomorrow at 9am and I am kind of nervous. I just need to remember all the things I practiced with my coach.

Update tomrorow ....