Got the Third place.

It was definitely a good and tough tournament. A quick summary of it:

First match: The guy I was playing against starts serving awesome, he aced me 2 times in a row the first game, so I kind of figured I was going to have a really tough game. So he won this first game and then I took over. Basically it was the only game that he got the entire match. I dismantled him. Won 6-1 and then 6-0. It’s not that the dude was not good player I just frustrated him from the beginning of the match and like I always say tennis is about 75% mental game. BTW the match lasted an hour.

Second match I was playing against a veteran meaning he applies extreme strategies to his game and he is very precise on his shots. So we started the game 2-2 then he won 5-2. I was like you got to fight Mo, so I came back to 5-5 then lost 7-5. Second set I was up 5-4 serving for the set and I got broke, so off to 6-5 my lead still wasn’t able to close the set so we went to tie-breaker and I lost it. The guy was just playing extremely clean tennis. He must have had like 5 faults the whole game its crazy. I wore him down but his clean tennis was the difference. BTW match lasted 2 hours.

Third match I was pissed off since I lost a very close game so I smoked the guy 6-0 ,6-0. the game was over in 55 minutes. So I guess I’ll settle for the third place. It was a good competitive tournament and definitely I being fit helped me out a lot.

I have been playing Ping Pong since I was a kid. It started when my cousin made table out of a board of wood with the right measurements at his house 108”L x 72”W x 36”H. I loved the game since and kept playing on and off.

This is a tutorial for the fundamentals of ping pong or table tennis. I also threw in some nifty tricks as well as tips and “Vidoes”. So enjoy.
To check them out Click on Ping Pong\Table Tennis Tutorials

If you find this helpful please leave me a comment.
I’m open for any questions or suggestions.

I had a tennis pick up match tonight against some dude in midland. Well I haven’t played tennis in like 2 months; so the first set I was hanging in there till we got to 4-4 after that he broke me on my serve and then finished the set at 4-6. PS: My serve was off the first set.

Second set I started mixing up my serves, and I smoked him 6-3. It did feel good in that set; however my serve is not where I wanted it to be yet.

So off to the third set, he started 2-0 and then I came back to 5-5; BTW I tried applying Agassi’s strategy in the third set which is make your opponent run at least 30% more than you do. So I ran his ass down. I started playing drop shots and pretty much controlling the game since I figured he was tired .When we got to 5-5 he was like “I gtg cause I told my wife I’ll be back at 9:30″. lmao! I was like ok whatever good game. If you ask me I wanted to finish the game so bad. Yet it was a decent pick up match. I wouldn’t say great but respectable.

Getting ready for the tennis tournament.
Today I continued my cardio workout and it feels good to mix it up a little; for example doing some stepper then treadmills then ellipse back to treadmill this kind of thing. I just had a headache while doing my workout for some reason which kind of slowed me down. The plan for tomorrow is to go to midland and practice some strokes. I also got a couple of pick up matches set for this week; to see where I stand and to get my game back. So far after turning 23 no major effects; Knees are still holding pretty well no signs of age I guess :). BTW I got a week off school because of spring break. I don’t know why they call it spring break it’s not spring yet. Personally I can’t wait till spring comes. Snow sucks. Alright that’s about it nothing else been going on that is worth mentioning. Peace