Sunday, January 20, 2008

A Game Of Tennis (20/1/08)


Today is a special day as it did not rain at night. So my parents and their friends had a two-hour tennis game with me at Uncle Wilson's condominium.
At start, we did some rally first. Rally is playing the ball to each other without stopping. It trains our accuracy on hitting the ball both vertically and horizontally. Next we praticed our surf for later's game. Soon we all got warmed up and we decided to play a set of doubles. I was paired up to one of my parents' friend, Uncle Wilson. Uncle Wilson is a good tennis player with excellent shots. Upon pairing up with him, it is quite easy to win the game. In the set, I played not quite up to my standards due to the fact that I got astimagtism. Thus there was a bit of distortion when I looked at the ball. Even though I could not hit the ball properly, uncle Wilson's powerful shots made us win at the last part with the score of 7-6. Since there was extra time, we decided to play another set. This time we swapped partners and my mother subtitudes my father. I was partnered with uncle Chris. He was also a good player. Then, we started the set. At first, we were losing way behind. But due to our strong determination, we caught up and won with my powerful volley shot, having the score of 6-4. After that, there was still ten minutes left! So we decided to play another set. But this time, there was not enough time so we stopped at the score 1-1. We packed up our things and left the tennis court.
After this tennis game, I have gotten more experience in tennis. I hope that I play better next time so that I can represent my school to play tournaments. In future, I hope that I can play as well as the world number one tennis player Roger Federer.

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