Egads! Enough introspection for awhile. What was that all about? (After all, this is not to be mistaken for Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey -- whose deep thought for today did make me laugh. Does that make me a bad person?) And please, don't even ask about the red hair. Eyes rolling back into head now. Though in my defense, I will say everyone thought it was natural -- well, strangers or people who didn't know that I was really blond thought so. I am part Irish. I think. Anyway --whole 'nother story. In any case, I'm not quite sure what got into me. Though whatever it was has officially passed.
Let's get back to TENNIS! It’s been a great week for it. So far the highlight was playing Barb S. on Monday. I was so nervous about playing her. She’s a 3.5, very quick and her ball placement is near perfect. One morning when I first started at FC, Barb warmed up w/ me when both our singles partners where running late. No joke, I think I missed everyone one of her balls – the pace and spin was overwhelming to me. I was expecting to get big-time bagled (i.e. a complete blow-out where you score zero.) but figured while it would be a snooze-fest for her, it would be great practice for me. We tried for an open court at 7:30am but because of the holiday, all the courts were taken. Barb invited me back to her home for breakfast, which was so sweet of her – and then we went back and played at 9am. Amazingly, I won the first 2 matches and though I lost the third, it was pretty close. I was shocked at how well I played against her. The experience further demostrated that I really must get-out-of-my-head (!!!!) and stop comparing abilities so much. Just be in the moment and have fun!
Today was my weekly USTA Singles Practice. Let me tell you, singles practice is a freakin' serious workout -- I must have burned 2000 calories in that 90 minutes. At practice, I met a few more members of my cup team. It was also decided during today's opening lecture that apparently I seem more like a ‘Stephanie’ -- hence my new nickname. I can also report that while there today I received a firsthand look at my cup teams uniform and got sized for our awesome team (skull/rhinestone) skirt. :-)
Then this afternoon it was off to my tennis lesson where after what must have felt like an eternity of feeding to my disastrous (yes, that is a word.)backhand returns, I can officially say that my coach has the patience of a saint. Poor guy. I’m sure it was painful to watch. You would have thought I had just picked up a racquet for the first time – or that I had my eyes closed. It wasn’t pretty. Oh well, tomorrow is another day. And it's an early one -- first match is with Ramona @ 7:30am.
tina signing off.
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