Thursday, May 9, 2024 (Court Day #657)
Today, the APP released a statement on social media supporting the USAP.
Now, I don’t know the details, I can only suspect this has something to do with the PPA undermining the USAP in some fashion, but I have no idea. Something must be brewing.
Skypark
I arranged for one of my staff to close the family business so I was able to leave a little early and arrive to Skypark at 6 p.m. René and I have a tournament together on Saturday morning, but we haven’t played together for weeks—maybe even over a month. We agreed to meet tonight. She said she was going to come early to avoid the southbound rush hour traffic on Highway 17 and would be meeting with Larry at 4:30 p.m. to drill.
Skypark
I parked in the lot by the soccer field and walked the five minutes to the courts.
René shared that her shoulder was hurting so we ended up only playing one game together . . . against Tim Feikert and his son Casey. Far from an easy warm-up game! René and I went up 4–0, but we started making errors and we ended up losing the game by significant margin. I was forcing shots instead of letting them come to me. Patience, grasshopper!
René was complaining about her shoulder and I convinced her that she should head home and ice it. And she did head out.
The rest of the evening playing mostly games a little interest. Though I did get into a game with Nate against Avery and Chloe. That was a fun game. Avery and Chloe took a strong early lead but Nate and I started powering our way back, though we eventually lost 11–7 or 11–8. If it had been a game to 15, we might have pulled off a win. I was making an effort to hit to Avery, so it wasn’t a case of us targeting Chloe.
Fried
9 o’clock rolled around I was pretty beat. I played the game with Aaron against the two Mikes and we clobbered them. They wanted a rematch and they ended up squeaking out a win in that second game. That was unexpected. Then Aaron and I won the third game.
Then we mixed things up with Aaron playing with one Mike and me playing with the other. I was dragging by this point, so every rally was a big effort on my part. I think we lost that game but honestly, I can’t remember for sure—it was at least a close game.
We finished that game just before the lights clicked off very shortly after 9:30 p.m.
I wasn’t thrilled with my play tonight. Tuesday felt good. Tonight didn’t. I hope I play like Tuesday night on Saturday and not like tonight!
Drilling Plans
By the end of the night, my knee was hurting. The current plan is for Mauricio and I to meet tomorrow morning and drill after I take my dog for vet visit.
Number of days on a court: 657
Number of total hours: 2,812
Number of paid coaching hours: 33
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