Sets 515-517:
Stuart v. M. at Little Stacy Park. Winner: Stuart 6-1, 2-6, 6-1.
My Mojo: What The ?
This guy had a kick serve like I had never seen before. I mean, I've seen kick serves, but this one had an underspin that just made it bounce in unpredictable directions, and I was constantly hitting it out of position. This gave him a tremendous offensive advantage on me, and I was scrambling to keep up.
In the first set, I was able to take a pretty significant advantage, eve though I was battling some significant nausea. My stomach was goinberserk on me, but I was still able to hold the set together. The weak stomach went away by the end of the first set, though.
But I lost my mojo in the second set, and could not bang his slammers back consistently. And the nausea came back really strongly toward the end of the second set. This time, I couldn't fight my way through it. It was really kicking my butt.
In the third set, I rallied. Although all of the sets were lopsided score-wise, the games really seemed more competitive than it showed in the score. There were a lot of really good rallies and some excellent strategic moves. Also, there were some definite pull-it-out-of-the-can moments for both of us where we had points that went back and forth on returns that nobody would have predicted that either of us would get back. All in all, a very good two-hour tour.
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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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