To use a baseball phrase, we were "down quickly 0-2" in the first set, thanks to me being nervous and hitting all sorts of easy groundstrokes long. I'm not really sure why I was nervous given that, you know, there is really nothing at stake here, but it took until the third game for me to start hitting well. But I think it paid off to keep playing aggressive. Favorite shot of the night: I caught the net man cheating to the middle and smacked a backhand winner straight down the line. [Insert fist pump here.]
My shoulder was pretty achy and serving was especially a struggle, but I managed to escape with only being broken once (two double faults, so really, I gave it to them). Now that I've taken some Aleeve, I think the shoulder's fine again.
The team as a whole won every match except one, so it was a victorious night for the Sunnyvale Tennis Club women's 3.0 team.
Now I'm watching Sports Center and wondering:
- Wow, how did Papi hit a *triple*?
- Did the Nationals rip their logo from Walgreens?
