Match with Dr. George
4/30/09 Thursday 7:00P.M.
Chico Racquet Club
Score:  2-6, 3-6
 
This was a Thursday night men’s league match.  My opponent was Dr. George.  I consider him to be a 4.0 player although Eldon says he is more of a 3.5 player with the potential of being 4.0 to 4.5.  In other words, his game is inconsistent.  [...]

10th Match with Marty
4/25/09 Saturday 10:00A.M.
Chico Racquet Club – 20th St. Courts
Score:  1-6, 3-6, 3-6
 
While I left the courts feeling a little disappointed, by the time I got home I didn’t feel so bad.  Overall, I have to say that my performance was really much more positive than negative. 
 
The positive is that I constructed [...]

7th Match with Sydney
4/17/09  Friday  1:00P.M.
Chico Racquet Club
Score: 2-6, 4-6
 
Actually today I played quite well.  Even though I lost, I can see considerable improvement.  Normally, Sydney runs me around by hitting a lot of angles.  He didn’t do that today.  He wasn’t able to.
 
I had a plan going into the match that I was going [...]

3rd Match with Derek
4/12/09  Easter Sunday 10:00A.M.
Chico Racquet Club
Score:  6-1
 
This was a very interesting set.  I can’t say match because Derek and I only played one set.  (Actually, after the first set we ended up playing doubles together for a couple of sets.)
 
I pretty much rolled over Derek.  It was one of the easiest sets [...]

3rd Match with Joe Bill
4/11/09 Saturday  3:00P.M.
20th St Park Municipal Courts
Score 6-1, 6-4
 
Just a quick write-up on my match with Joe, today.  Joe started out slow today.  I noticed in our warm-up he wasn’t hitting his ground strokes with much consistency.  As we started out the match I began just by putting some spin serves [...]

4th Match with Jeremy
4/8/09  Wednesday  11:30 A.M.
Chico Racquet Club
Score: 1-6, 1-6
 
I’m trying to figure out why this match score came out so badly for me.  I wasn’t playing that badly.  It was rather windy.  It was a wind from the south that was gusty and did in fact move the ball around.  That did seem [...]

2nd Match with Joe
4/5/09  Sunday  2:30P.M.
20th St. Park municipal courts
Score: 7-6 (4)
 
I played a set with my son, Joe, today after helping him with his serve.  He’s really starting to get a sense of rhythm with his serve.  All the pieces are starting to come together.  I believe the serve is not only the most [...]

3rd Match with Jeremy
4/1/09  Wednesday  11:00P.M.
Chico Racquet Club
1-6, 1-6, 2-3
 
A few quick comments about my match with Jeremy today.  It was windy to the degree that it affected the trajectory of the balls being played.  It was also a little warm which affected my energy level to a certain extent.  (By the third set, though, [...]

2nd Match with Derek Culligan
3/8/09   Sunday  11:00A.M. 
Chico Racquet Club
Won 6-4, 7-6 (4)
 
I’m not so sure that Eldon, my coach and mentor, would be pleased with the way I won this match today.  But basically I won it from behind the baseline.  I’m not saying I didn’t get up to the net from time [...]

9th Match with Marty Kooper
3/07/09  Saturday  1:00P.M.
Chico Racquet Club
0-6, 7-6 (6), 5-7
 
I started out this match rather cold and once again too outcome oriented. (Not having hit a ball since Wednesday morning didn’t help either.) As we ended up the warm-up my ground strokes weren’t feeling very comfortable. The first set score (0-6) seemed to [...]