Today we had individual CIFs (we being me, and our no. 1 doubles team kim & erin). Get this... our matches were at the Peninsula Raquet club. Now, you may not have heard of this place, but let me tell you, this place was BEAUTIFUL... it was so incredibly awesome. It literally was located on a cliff on the ocean. On top of that, it was a beautiful day and we could see catalina so clearly, that it was like we could almost touch it! I could see the ocean from the court i was on for my second match...
now, i dont know if you caught that, but i said second match... yup, i won my first round cif match... 6-3 6-1. it was such a great feeling winning that first match... that was my goal. praise God for the good draw!
and then i lost my second match... 1-6 1-6. this gal was good... she could place the ball on a dime. I got my two games off of her, and so no bagel was given.
doubles also won their first match (two sets and a third set super-tie breaker!) and then lost their second... they played really well.
so ya, it was a great place and way to end the season. I am super bummed that the season is over. but hey, i have got next season to look forward to!
well i am off
ta-ta
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By the way...
I now have a way to moderate comments, so all those people who have some sort of weird program watching my site waiting for me to post so that it can spam me the moment i do will get rejected by me... i get to approve the comments i want to now!!! In your face spammers... haha, three spammers tried spamming my last post... REJECTED!
Dry Courts
There has been so much tennis going on, i love it! I have been playing and watching tennis a bunch this past two weeks (except on wednesday when practice was rained out). I also went to watch the WTA tour tournament at the Staple's Center on thursday night with the tennis team... ton of fun. We all went after our team CIF match... and that's where the story begins... the CIF match.
I woke up on thursday upset to see that the street outside was wet. Then, as i walked to my car to leave for school, i was attacked by a violent drizzle (a drizzle on a match day is just the same as a downpour to tennis players, so excuse the exaggeration). Upset by the drizzle, i took off for school. When i arrived, i was greeted by a huge puddle in place of where our tennis courts were. In addition, the drizzle turned into rain. It was looking like our match, scheduled for 1:00 pm was not going to happen.
But wait...
During second period (AP english), while working on group work, i caught a glimpse of blue skies through the window and jumped out of my seat. I shouted, "Blue skies!" and pointed out the window. Being the only one on the tennis team, everyone else looked at me and didn't share my excitement. But, sure enough, there was a tiny patch of blue and it was getting bigger. I knew that third period (Teacher's Aide for PE) was going to be filled with squeegying (sp?) the courts and trying to dry them. Sure enough, that's what I did... however, i was joined by the PE class... with Allison being the PE teacher and the tennis coach, she could have her class dry the courts. So, by the end of third period, the courts were looking a ton better than a huge lake. They were probably half dry.
At the end of third period, i decided i would ask my ceramics teacher (4th period) if i could skip ceramics and work on the courts... surprisingly, she said yes. So that's what i and the 4th period PE class did all 4th period. God sent more blue skies and a warm sun, and by the end of fourth period, the courts were bone dry! Isn't that amazing?!?!? Praise God! Plus, what a way to end the school week (the team got out at lunch because of the 1:00 match start, and we had friday off). Yup yup, so that's the story. We didn't win our CIF match... it was 7-11. This team was from one hour north of santa barbra (cabrillo lompoc). They were good, but we totally could have taken them. I did win all three of my sets though, so i was super stoked :)
well, i am off... i have an appointment with myself to do nothing :)
I woke up on thursday upset to see that the street outside was wet. Then, as i walked to my car to leave for school, i was attacked by a violent drizzle (a drizzle on a match day is just the same as a downpour to tennis players, so excuse the exaggeration). Upset by the drizzle, i took off for school. When i arrived, i was greeted by a huge puddle in place of where our tennis courts were. In addition, the drizzle turned into rain. It was looking like our match, scheduled for 1:00 pm was not going to happen.
But wait...
During second period (AP english), while working on group work, i caught a glimpse of blue skies through the window and jumped out of my seat. I shouted, "Blue skies!" and pointed out the window. Being the only one on the tennis team, everyone else looked at me and didn't share my excitement. But, sure enough, there was a tiny patch of blue and it was getting bigger. I knew that third period (Teacher's Aide for PE) was going to be filled with squeegying (sp?) the courts and trying to dry them. Sure enough, that's what I did... however, i was joined by the PE class... with Allison being the PE teacher and the tennis coach, she could have her class dry the courts. So, by the end of third period, the courts were looking a ton better than a huge lake. They were probably half dry.
At the end of third period, i decided i would ask my ceramics teacher (4th period) if i could skip ceramics and work on the courts... surprisingly, she said yes. So that's what i and the 4th period PE class did all 4th period. God sent more blue skies and a warm sun, and by the end of fourth period, the courts were bone dry! Isn't that amazing?!?!? Praise God! Plus, what a way to end the school week (the team got out at lunch because of the 1:00 match start, and we had friday off). Yup yup, so that's the story. We didn't win our CIF match... it was 7-11. This team was from one hour north of santa barbra (cabrillo lompoc). They were good, but we totally could have taken them. I did win all three of my sets though, so i was super stoked :)
well, i am off... i have an appointment with myself to do nothing :)
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