After 4 years of living in Minnesota the first snow finally arrived in late November for a cold winter in 2011. No more playing outside, everything has been moved to inside. My dad has started hitting the ball again since the summer and we are playing together around 3 days a week now followed with my group trainings and private class. Playing as many tournaments as I can, I played my 3rd 16 and under tournement. Since I haven't played a lot of 16's, I was unlucky to not be seeded and not have a by in the first round. I had to play Eliot Anderson in the round of 64 and had a tricky start. Ater a though first set winning 6-4, the second was a lot more one sided as a went through to the round of 32 with a 6-4 6-1 victory. My second match was against the #3 seedin the tournament. It was garenteed to be a though match but once I got on court I was domonent from the start and even more in the second set. I was happy to go through with a 6-3 6-1 victory. My next match was on Saterday night. From the start I was not on my best tennis and never was throughout the whole match. I was rather lucky to beable to finish it in staraight sets 6-3 6-3. Even though I had a bad match I was happy to go to the Quarter finals. In the quarter finals I had to play a tall kid named Carter Jones, This was going to band e a hard match fom the start and I had to play my best tennis to go to the semi finals. we had to play at 9:30pm on Saterday and all I hoped is that it wouldn't go to a 3rd set. Carter coming out super strong and finishing the first set with a 6-3 domonation first set. Even though I was playing amazing, he was out hitting me and in the second he seemed to be in good shape too. He was up 5-4 and serving for a spot in the semi finals Icouldn't do anything but not give up. I broke and it went to a tiebreak later on. It was 11 o'clock and he was up 4-2 in the tiebreak wer again, didn't let go and won the second set 7-6. I was amazed by my tennis. It had to go to a 3rd set tiebreaker and both of us wanted that spot in the semi-finals. Even if it was 11:15 I was full of energy not missing a serve and hitting hard and it payed of, I was ahead 5-1 in the 3rd set tiebreak. The tiebreak goes up to 10 points best out of two, and this time it was Carter that looked like coming back. It was soon 7-6 for me. It was exactly 11:30 when it was 9-6 for me. I finally had 3 match points. He saves two of them but I wasn't going to let fo and finished the match in 2 hours and booked my spot in the semi-finals. I was amazed by the way I played and it couldn't have been any better.
In the semi-finals I had to play Chase Roseth. The guy that took out the #2 seed. and I knew that with the way he plays, it was going to be a though match. He did a lot of high balls and I couldn't handle it and lost 3-6 1-6. I was dissapointed with my match but knew that with such a guy that does only high bals, I have no chance at.
So all together I had an amazing tournement winning 4/5 of my matches. I recorded my best victory so far and played my 3rd 16 and under tournament.
So I had a good weekend:D
Your Friend
Floyd
