Saturday tennis/Carlos Pueblo
After our
tennis team was dismantled, I was concerned with no Saturday
tennis any
longer till the e-mail came in from another team captain. He
needs
players to fill up three teams for his club, B1, B2, and B3, to play
at the West
Houston Men’s League. My old teammate Roger and I gladly
join them to
get Saturday tennis and we manage to continue our own
tennis meet
on Tuesday night at our courts. Time goes by quickly and it
has been
more than a year after our courts got flooded during Hurricane
Harvey.
There are 5
lines double for B1 and B3 league playing on the same Saturday
that means
20 players for the captain to worry about while B2 has 6 lines
with 12
players on an alternative weekend. B2 team usually is combined with
his B1 and
B3 players; therefore, his club players get to play every Saturday.
He is a
retired geologist and also serves as B1 league commissioner. Jim and
my old
captain Bill are more like each other found of tennis. I shall receive
my
assignment on Friday for the time and place to play on the next day and
report to
him our match thereafter.
All match
for three levels is a regular 11 games match with add and ahead
of two games
to win, tie breaker at 11 and 7 points to win and two points
ahead
required. It has been a traditional activity for Americans during the
weekend
while ladies league play during the weekdays.
I love to
play tennis. I have joined the league ever since 1996. I began my
Interest in
tennis when I was at junior high school playing rubber balls
Japanese
tennis at our sugar plant subdivision and also playing the school
team for a
semester. Due to expansive cost of regular tennis, Japanese
have
developed the rubber balls tennis with a lighter racket. Before my
time to
immigrate to the U.S., Rubber balls were still popular in several
areas with
Japanese relation, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Hawaii.
We use slice
a lot while playing Japanese tennis; therefore, I have built
that habit
ever since. I would credit to that slice habit to avoid tennis
elbow of any
kinds.
I no longer
have the overhead power, instead I would carefully tap the
ball back
and volley softly and wait for inexperience opponents to make
an unforced
error for me to make a point. It is very hard work to win a
match and I
like it very much because of that I make a lot of exercises.
I believe
that it is more exercises than 2.2 miles walk in the morning.
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