tennis, life and a few things in between

The first video of my serve after a 20 month hiatus. We’ve a few cold days when the temperature dropped below zero. Today is the first day that’s warm enough to play, and we’ve six players.

I won the first set with a girl, 6-2 but lost the second set with my colorful partner 3-6, though we were leading 3-0 to begin. As it happened, we’re all in black today – maybe we need to add some colors -:)

The pool temp is 76º: heaven on earth. I even found a little shy lizard buddy on deck, who keeps me company.

What did I do today:

Broke a recycled jar that I loved so much, moved it from New York … so I was heart broken 💔 and late to the pool.

Then when I rushed to the court, did I realize that I didn’t have my sneakers … so ran home to get them.

When I finally walked into the court, my identical twin chastised me for being late, ” … we almost left…” 😂

Then he saw my blinding top and I was instantly forgiven 😹 he had two layers of the flashy color 👍 that carried us, blindsiding our opponents and milked out a meager win 😀

4-6, 6-4, 10-5 (10 pt tie break)

Happy holidays everyone 🎄 🕎 💕 ☮️ stay warm

Someone’s toy – clean the lines.

Jay and I got to a wonderful start, winning 6-2, serving well.

“Don’t give up, let’s take the second set too.”

“Ok.” I said to my partner as much as to remind myself.

5-0.

One more game, we’ll bag the win.

However, the tide turned against us, continuously for the next five games when two spectators showed up.

At 5-6, we finally broke them and tied the set at 6-6.

Tiebreak.

3-0.

Then … we lost it at 5-7.

Oh well.

^{An old can of pink tennis balls, with Motorola logo on them}

My tennis has been going well, till today. A terrible line call put me back on earth.

At game’s point, my partner hit a beautiful down the line shot and one of opponents, looked at it for a prolonged time, like 30 second, then rendered verdict: OUT.

The opponent violated two cardinal rules:

1. If you don’t make an immediately out call, which means good and you lose the point.
2. 99% out, is still 100% IN.

Both rules are correlated and self explanatory. They meant to uphold honesty and fairness.

In play, the player has the right to call when the ball in on her or his side of the court. Although we saw clearly it’s a good ball, but my partner said graciously that it’s their call. The opponent didn’t make an out call. Instead, circled the mark for a good 20 to 30 seconds, asking, is it out. LOL. So pathetic, by asking, the opponent already admitted, either she didn’t see it clearly or couldn’t make up her mind to give us the game, which put us in a commanding lead.

I always think such moment is the moment of truth. You’re struggling with truth or fairness, but struggling with yourself to be a better person (fair and honest) or not to lose.

心灵拷问的瞬间

搭档打了一个很漂亮的球, 在线上. 对手站在球印边问 “是进还是出?”
心灵拷问的瞬间开始上演 其实她是在找借口,拖时间吧? 想做个诚实的人还是不要输掉那一分. 围着那个球印, 左看右看, 拿不定主意. 可怜虫 lol

规矩是 如果不能马上叫 “出”, 那分就是对方的
另外· 看起来99%出 其实就是100%进. 就这么简单 if a ball looks 99% out, it IS still 100% IN.
婊子和牌坊 很难同时拥有.

🎾 holy moly … I broke my damper [Lol] – don’t even know a damper can be broken.

Coach said, “it’s so old, needed to be broken.” [呲牙]

俺这儿 还新三年 旧三年 缝缝补补又三年那 [调皮]

So 今天就二个学生… 轮流一对二.
4.0小鲜肉 + 教练 都还客气. 俺虽然没有赢 但也没有输love game – 真是自己打赢了几分.

要求不高 时时开心 [调皮]