Annoyed that I can't just finally decide on a grip. On the backhand definitely double eastern forehand grip. On the forehand I had some pretty good success with top hand eastern forehand and bottom semiwestern. I played a girl who actually won a set off me. (She could have played professionally but didn't try due to a shoulder issue). Anyway we split sets and she won the second when she just hit this wicked slice to my forehand. With the easter/semiwestern I was having trouble getting underneath it. May also have been fatiguing mentally or something. I've been losing the second set against a ton of people. But anyway I can hit a great drive with a eastern forehand/semiwestern including crosscourt. The slice isn't as great but I guess it's OK. The problem is the top hand gets in an awkward position when hitting topspin and the tendons in the wrist straight down from my thumb were hurting very very slightly today. So I decided to go back to continental/semiwestern. I had stopped doing it because it seemed like I wasn't accurate when going crosscourt. But perhaps I just had a bad day or two. Today outside it was.... meh. Not terrible. Though not great. But I definitely don't want to develop an injury. Nor do I want to have to play less often to avoid one.

I hope that once and for all, this will be the final grip change. I have been changing grips for like the last two years now. No more changing my grip to try to improve. Moving on to footwork stuff. Planning on buying a more expensive ball machine with horizontal oscillation and topspin/backspin. Just need to get better at moving around as I'm hitting. That and better serve placement. Also I'm bored to tears with jogging so want to get a workout with the horizontal oscillation of the silent partner instead.

Not that it remotely matters but I found this woman extremely attractive because she was almost exactly like S in her mannerisms, her way of talking, and even her body was really similar. But she was black and half a foot taller which makes it a little weird. Really her voice, her smile....

Anyway if she hadn't injured her shoulder she surely would have been a successful pro. Has a forehand like Serena. Was crushing my second serve like no one I've ever played before.