The Falcons look really good through 3 weeks, and Sunday's game vs. the Saints was probably the best football game I've watched in a long time.
But, fall also means that all of my tennis league kick back into action. I played 0 times the two months I was in Vegas and came back completely out of shape and couldn't play at all. Well 2 months later I'm still completely out of shape, but I'm playing better than I ever have.
My singles league started last week. It's a 6.0 rating USTA league, so just about everyone I play is either a teaching professional or played collegiate tennis somewhere. My first match was no exception, and the guy was really solid. He definitely had better strokes than me, but ultimately my laziness just got the better of me. At 3-3 in the first set I just couldn't move around the court anymore and he picked up on it rather quickly. I actually had 2 break points at 4-3 in the 1st set which probably would have locked up the set for me, but I ran kind of bad and lost both. I fought back to 5-5, but was just completely out of gas by then and didn't win another game, losing 7-5, 6-0.
My doubles league started a couple of weeks ago as well. My partner Adam played 1 doubles at Michigan State and is an absolute monster (and ex-poker player as well) on the court, which makes playing with him ridiculously fun. I haven't been the weaker player on a doubles team since I was 12 years old or so, and was the #1 doubles team in the state with my buddy Ryan.
Anyways, Adam and I head out to our first match, expecting a complete blowout. We're playing in a league decently far below our actual skill levels, so we planned on tuning it down a little bit for the first match. Unfortunately, we find out that the two guys we are playing are on the Antigua and Barbados Davis Cup team. Both of them played college tennis in the states, and they throw on their Davis Cup shirts right before we start the match.
Luckily Adam and I played super solid together and won the match 6-4, 6-1, but these were probably two of the most athletic people I've ever played against in my life, and the match was infinitely closer than the score suggested.
Last Saturday was our second match, and I played with my partner Ricky from last year as Adam was out of town. We played pretty horribly and ended up winning in 3 sets, but were definitely in danger of throwing this one away. Luckily I came up with 2 monster aces on the last two points of the match to put it away.
Allrighty I should probably stop blogging and get to work...
- Daniel
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