tennis team member Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner:
I’m pretty exhausted right now but I’ll try to squeeze in a couple lines about today.
Today we played
It turns out, though, they really weren’t that much less tough than the other teams. Apparently, they even put up a really good fight against HPU. Marc told us that their top three players were all really good but their lower ranks were easier to handle.
The girl I played was really, really good. Playing for 10 years. But at least in this game, we had a lot of really long rallies. I was surprised, in fact, that I was able to get to most of her shots. There were a couple I wasn’t sure I’d make it to cuz they were so fast but I’d just book it and I actually made it to them! That was satisfying. All of her strokes had huge top spin, though, which sucked but once I got used to it, it was cool. There were a couple of unforced errors I made though (unforced error = hitting out or hitting into the net, not because her shots were tough but because I just made the mistake on my own. ie unforced) and I'm pretty disappointed I couldn't get a game out of it. I was really bummed about that.
It was a good, fun match for me, though – I actually felt like a tennis player rather than just a pig waiting to be ripped into. Gross, I know, but true. A lot of the team was unhappy with the match, though, and I think that was because we all felt we should have done a lot better since this team was supposed to be the one team we could put up a good fight against. But from the beginning, the atmosphere of the team didn’t feel right to me – but that’s probably just me.
Anyways, after the match, we headed out to another beach – I think it was Haleiwa. It was a nice beach, and we had a picnic which was great. But all that sun today really wore on me so I’m out.
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