Sad Face
And just when you thought you’ve met the top team a couple of weeks ago and it couldn’t get any worse, I were wrong and I would say we were literally trashed just over the weekend. One of the ladies from Glen Huntly already warned us about the ladies from Parkdale and I was more of less prepared that we might lose, but not trashed 6-1 in both sets because that’s just pathetic. We started scoring a 1-1 in the first set of ladies but after that it was all down the drain.
Ironically I was so on a roll that day and had so many nice winners that even both the ladies from the opposing team compliment them. But hey, it’s not american doubles and you can’t run a one man show. 
So it was really quite disappointing that with every winner you make, your partner faults the other point. I didn’t show the frustration that day and was glad I managed to keep my cool. But it really bite when we got home and a day later as it pissed me off even thinking about it. Your partner in a doubles match really plays an important part.
The mens doubles was quite bad too and Yong was pretty much peeved as well. Of course every ball that went to Grandpa J, he could hardly run and couldn’t get it back. They lost in straight sets too. We couldn’t decide what to do for the mix doubles pairing. I mean both the ladies and men were quite strong although of course there is always the slightly weaker pair. Yong’s initial idea was to split us up into one weak/one strong per pair, but I really felt like playing with him that day and so we went together instead. We thought we could at least take one rubber away, but at last we didn’t think to choose the slightly weaker pair (and went with their 1st pair) and thus gave the rubber away as well. Yong was also losing his cool that day and I had to keep telling him to calm down otherwise he won’t be able to focus. He finally got it in the 2nd set but it was too late for a come back. *sigh* That was one week where we didn’t even win one rubber! 
Hopefully when the “Fantastic Four” get back together again, we can strive to do better.
juzmel
jimbo
longy83
jl1989
poyyun19
edlee
Posted by jimbo on November 17, 2009 at 12:30 am
Comiserations team, I’m over here in Japan on holidays while you guys are toiling away !!! I should feel guilty buuuuut …..
Whether we win or lose I guess as long as we can improve then we’ll find a way to be the top team. I hope you guys we able to sus out what they did well and not so well so we can atleast be better prepared for next time and push ourselves to improve. Good luck for the next meet guys, knock’em dead.
Posted by juzmel on November 20, 2009 at 10:34 am
Well you’re right, we can only depend on “Luck” for the next meet.. Although we are playing one of the bottom teams as well (Victory Park), we only have 2 out of the “Fantastic Four” present this weekend.
Any chance you can warp back to OZ just for tomorrow so you and me can join them to whoop arses? Otherwise I’m really hoping Jim and Yin Pin make a good effort to beat them tomorrow.. 