Set 375:
My Mojo: Tentative.
Stuart v. A. at St. Edward's University. Winner: Stuart 6-3.
I played a lot more than just the one set of singles. I showed up for this meetup group, and first warmed up with one guy, and then played doubles with five players where we rotated out one person each game, and then played straight doubles (lost the first one, ended up tied in the second one), and then I played a set of singles with A.
My hitting was tentative and I felt sluggish and unresponsive. I was hitting defensively and catching many of my shots too close to my body for good direction. But toward the end of the singles set I was able to relax a little and get more out of my defensive posture. I also rushed the net a little more, but that didn't work out too great for me as I watched a lot of winners and lob winners fly by me. Still, I managed to bring in enough stuff to win the set, mostly through sheer tenacity.
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A scholarly discourse regarding fascinating and obscure psychological factors leading one of this planet's more curious carbon-based organisms to extemporaneously expel random musings which may or may not be related in some fashion to propelling a small round object through space above a flat surface either into or beyond an interweaved perpendicular highly porous fabric, within or outside of geometric patterns inscribed upon the aforementioned flat surface, mostly utilizing a stringed paddle.
This blog will, among other things, chronicle my attempts to meet my New Year's resolution of playing 365 sets of tennis in 2007. I did let myself start a little more than a month early. Why? Because I can. And because the thought of averaging a set a day for a year is, um, maybe a little overwhelming. I wanted some leeway to deal with the inevitable injuries, rainouts, cancellations, and so on. I also needed time to ramp up and contact people and get a network of people to play. So I have already started 2007 with 34 sets that I played in late November and December of 2006. Anyway, either way, I did play (and even exceeded) my 365 sets for a year, whether you count it from starting early or or from January 1, 2007. For more info, click on Why a Tennis Blog? and Clarification and Further Study of the Matter at Hand. Nowadays I just chronicle the tennis I play when I feel like it.
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