Friday, July 8, 2022 (Court Day #513)
I arranged to take the morning off from work, and I left my house about 8:55 a.m. It was quite warm outside already with the sun brightly shining.
I have to say my arm is holding up amazingly well. I’m experiencing some pain on the inside of my elbow, however the outside of my elbow where I was having tennis elbow problems is doing great—especially considering how much I been playing the past week. The back of my right hand is having a little bit of periodic minor pain with certain motions and that worries me a little bit that it may suddenly flare up again to be quite painful, but so far it’s doing well.
I pulled into the parking lot at 9:09 a.m. Seven courts had games going and the eighth had Dean and Dan Bliss drilling on it.
Advanced? Not So Much.
I got into some unmemorable games in the mixed skill time until 10 a.m. when I saw that there was an advanced box that contained Leslie, Dan Bliss, and someone named Rob. It turns out this particular Rob is a shorter fellow was visiting from Alameda. Rob said he was a 3.5 player who is a 4.0 on a good day, I told him I was in the same boat. Before I put my name into the box as the fourth player, I walked over to where Dan and Leslie were sitting and I asked them if I could join their box. Leslie said yes, but Dan hesitated a second then agreed. I said to Dan, “You hesitated, it’s OK if you say no.” Then he said that he did hesitate but he was OK playing with me.
When the court opened up Leslie and I faced off against Rob and Dan. Rob played very poorly, maybe not even at a 3.0 level. He apologized to Dan after the game. Leslie and I won the game in a very lopsided manner. I had a very solid performance missing making very few errors. As they walked back to the waiting area, Dan talked to Rob about signing up in an appropriate color, and in this particular case Dan meant intermediate blue, not advanced red. Rob gave some pushback and convinced Dan to let him play another game in red.
Next
We went on to play another game, this time with Tony S. as my partner against Rob and Dan. Rob played better—which probably would’ve been hard not to do—and it was a good back-and-forth game which Tony and I won. I had another very respectable performance in that game. I successfully pulled off a couple of very difficult shots in that game and after each of them Tony played me a compliment. Nice. After that game, in the waiting area, Dan smiled and said, “That was a fun game.” I concurred, “That was a fun game.”
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At noon, I played a game with the same Rob against René and her boyfriend Rick. One game with Rob and one against Rob. Rob was on the losing side each time. By that time both René and I were dragging. We were leading 8-0 and let them catch up quite a bit until we finally wrapped it up 11-7.
It was about 12:40 p.m. by the time that I left.
Number of days on a court: 513
Number of total hours: 2,367.5
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