Fort Wayne Kekiongas Week 4
It was the match up of undefeated teams; the Fort Wayne Kekiongas were coming off their best week yet and seemed unbeatable. This week it was a later start time, 8 in the evening. The stage was set to determine which men's 3.0/3.5 tennis team was the best in town.
We warmed up with some ground shots, volley, and serves; the racquet was spun to determine the team to serve first and it was us. Just as last week, our opponents breaks serve on the first game; they were much more skilled than the players from last week though. That break was the difference in the first set as the rest of the games were held by the serving team; Kekiongas lose the first set 4-6. We go down 1-3 in the second set when my partner severely injured his knee (going down screaming to the ground); basically leaving him only able to hit the ball if it was close to him. I pushed my game to another level and recovered the second by forcing it into tiebreaker; we won the tiebreaker 11-9. Into super-tiebreaker, the Kekiongas was left with a broken leg (literally) and couldn't fully recover from it; we lost the super-tiebreaker, third set, and match when we went down 8-10.
It was a difficult lose especially because we came back in the second set and so close in super-tiebreaker. The Fort Wayne Kekiongas lost the overall match 1-4. We will see how the team comes back from a loss next week.
While watching sports, commentaries often say the great athletes have a short term memory and forget about bad plays. I'm not sure how much I agree with that statement, but what do I know since I'm not a professional tennis player. While I don't obsess on plays that I don't make during the match, I keep in mind what is effective and what simply isn't functioning. After the match, I do engross my mind of my failures and what I could have done in certain points particularly in a loss; this is what has improved my game dramatic over the years. I don't let failure become inconvenient but something that is advantageous to me and gives me aspects to improve upon. The next time I'm in a similar situation, I'll be a better person and the outcome will hopefully be much better.