What’s it mean to be seeded? Not a lot if you ask me. Here I am seeded #2 at the Denver City Open Tennis Tournament (Men’s 65 Singles) coming up next week, but I haven’t played a match in nine months! (Can’t wait to find out if that was a “computer” ranking). With the shoulder injury last fall, and surgery last December on the rotator cuff, it’s been a tough road. I’m no where near a full recovery and can’t toss the ball decently with my left arm yet, not to mention the strain of actually hitting the ball. I was thinking maybe I’d toss and hit the ball both with my right arm and see where that leads. And learn a lesson on how to lose gracefully. No hopes of doing any real damage.
At least on that recent cruise to Alaska, I only took an elevator once. Ran up and down the stairs all week to the dessert buffet. Yes, that was my training regimen! 🙂 And now I’m seeded #2??
What can you learn from this? Don’t give away a match, at least psychologically, just because someone is seeded higher than you. One never knows who’s taking the court that day. It could be someone like me!
Update: 6-18-14: Played an unbelievable match yesterday and came out on top, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. Long, long match. We both played terrible, but it was a case of who was going to pull it together at the end. Maybe the seeding prayed on my opponent’s mind? Anyway, I got aggressive at the end of the match and (for the first time in the match) took the net on his serve by chipping and charging and it drew the error on some critical points. Probably had 8 match points before closing it out (will have to go to the video to see for sure, not that it matters.) Maybe what does matter is the fact that my opponent (who is also my double partner!) questioned a lot of calls – even baseline calls from behind the baseline on his end of the court!
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