Sunday, January 4, 2015

Lost 6-3, 6-4 to Jay C the #1 ranked player (I'm still #2). I did better than last time (lost 6-4, 6-2 before). This time I played with a 6.1 prostaff stretch weighted to 14.5 ounces and my serve was much better than last time when I played with an unweighted Prince Graphite Classic Longbody. Only had a single ace. But had very few double faults and had decent pace and moved things around OK... He has a great ROS though. I did rush the net a lot. My net play sucked. I absurdly tried a semiwestern forehand grip and without any practice of course my forehand sucked. In the second set I went back to western grip and hit my forehands much better. Maybe could have won a couple more games if I had played western in first set.

Backhand wasn't good. Slice was inconsistent and drive with eastern was better than last week with continental but seeing as I never get to practice it's to be expected that it wasn't very good.

I have to start playing at least twice a week. Such inconsistent exercise isn't good. Always feel like shit afterwards not to mention I don't play very well.

This guy actually drives all the way to Pittsburgh to play also he's so into tennis. I'm not willing to drive that far.