tennis, life and a few things in between

Oh boy, my pick is out early. She’s injured unfortunately. -:( Love you girl, go get them in Paris.

Last night I played really well, for the first two sets. We (7.5) almost bagel’ed a 8.5 team. My new serve was working.

There were a couple of bad line calls. One was a deep shot to the baseline by my partner. I thought was well within. My partner asked me if it was in. I said yes it was then regretted. I’ve mixed feeling about confirming a bad line call. Wondering if it was the right thing to do because he hit a super hard shot the next point to vent his little annoyance. During my serve I had an ace: I saw it landed on the T and heard the ball hitting the tape. The receiver called it out even the partner started to move to the baseline for my serve. Obviously the partner thought it was an ace, so did my partner. However, the receiver insisted that it was the receiver’s call and it was called out. I confirmed with my partner who said it was good. I was asking myself: was it the right thing to do – asking my partner to confirm a call when he has no right of calling? In my case, I just wanted to know if it’s good and didn’t really care the call. But in a real match, would knowing a wrong call fuels my frustration or even anger? Which won’t be good during a match.

Oh I’m repeating myself here. Anyway, the points standing as of this morning and this afternoon when it finally being updated:

A few careless matches we’re down to #2. I lost three matches in a row. OMG. With two more matches to go for all top three teams in our division, the current points are:

1. 67.5
2. 63
3. 61

#3 and we have identical two teams to play against, in the same order. #1 is playing #3 tonight for the 9th match and their 10th match is against us.

The last three matches, we lost 1-2. A few pix on FB.

We opted to serve after the warm up. Michael started.

1-0
1-3
2-4
2-5
5-5
5-7
0-1
0-2
2-2
4-3
4-4 … then time’s up. A timed match.

At the last game point we had the advantage (the girl was serving). Michael hit a deep shot to the baseline that forced her to react. It’s a pop up
above the net. It didn’t look that it would cross the net. I yelled out ‘bounce’ because Michael has charged the net – at the net. The next thing I knew was our opponents said Mike has crossed the net so it’s their point. I was a little surprised but what they said surprised me even more as Michael was explaining to them that he did not strike the ball:
“Let’s not let this to ruin this match .. This match has been a good one .. ”
Did they jump to pacify us too quickly?

The 8th match at Randall’s Island. More on FB

Jan 8

The towels is free to use in our club. And there are few members who need more than half a dozen towels all the time. Once I counted the high pile on the bench near her: 10. Not sure how and why would she need 10 towels but it seems to me a waste.

The club in our town was newly built, in 2006. I would have guessed that they would tailor it to fit… Like to install a chute to facilitate the towels, to reduce manpower. The dirty towels or used towels often piled high next to the clean pile during busier times, when the maintenance ladies failed to collect them in time. A chute that deposit the used towels to the washing room would greatly reduce manpower and traffic jams. Just a thought.
Since I’m at it, the bathroom doors could use an indicator if it’s being used. That won’t cost too much but convenience, would it?
Also the q-tip jar is always jammed. Have a little training and please fill it 80% so it is easy and hygienic for all.