This just doesn’t feel natural to me at times. That was how warm up was today. For the first few minutes neither of us could hit anything. I commented, “Good thing tennis doesn’t matter to me otherwise I would be upset. MrD said, “I know what you mean.”

I have purposely not played a match for a while. I knew I was treating today very seriously. We agreed the best of three at the beginning. I thought it might take two hours.

MrD played well today. He ran down many good balls. He had very good pace on his shots. Mixing it up with a variety of shots. I think it was his best performance to date.

I played well warming up slowly and beginning to get aggressive when he had me 0-4 in the second. I changed my pace. It made a difference. I had a few aces. I think we were even on aces today.

Today a local coach and watched us for an hour or so. Her advice was to change the self talk. For both of us. I tried following her advice and will hopefully remember to stick with that. It was fun making the statements positive on some of the same issues.

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