Saturday, March 25, 2023. (Court Day #585)

Today was the day of the league match between myself and René against Jason Brown and Gary. It’s been five days since I last played—I’ve been trying to heal. We had arranged for the match to be at 9 o’clock. René was originally talking about us arriving at 8 a.m. to warm up, however yesterday she suggested 8:30 instead. That was fine by me since I’m not really a morning person. As it was, I had a last-minute work staffing issue to deal with which delayed me about 10 minutes. When I told René, I’d be there 8:40 a.m., she said she was running late as well.

Things were already hopping in Brommer Park when I got there. I saw René at a court getting ready to warm up. With my right hand hurting, she suggested that I play left-handed. So I warmed up playing lefty until I got annoyed with it and opted to try playing right handed, which, of course was more accurate and more powerful. The back of my right hand only hurt when I was hitting backhands. Forehands had a little, if any, pain.

We are playing a couple of warm up games against Kent, who said he had only played four times in the last 3 1/2 months due to injury, and there is another player I didn’t know—I think his name is Gary—he’s probably a 3.0 player. René and I played three games against them. We won the first two games 11-0 and then won the third game in a lopsided fashion as well, although they scored some points.

League Match

René was complaining about not being warmed up enough. It’s true, we hadn’t warmed up against a strong team.

We lost the first match game 11-5 or something. And we never completed the second game. René was feeling overwhelmed with some family issues and couldn’t finish up our match. Alas.

Tim F. and I played a game against Kent and Jason. It was a somewhat close game, but Tim and I won. Tim has been playing very well lately. He’s very consistent. The back of my hand was starting to ache. It was time to go.

I left at 10:20 a.m. Home, then to work.

Number of days on a court: 585
Number of total hours: 2,589
Number of paid coaching hours: 2

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