We played our first friendly match against Chinese University tennis team yesterday. As Joseph n I arrived at 2, the young guns Tony, Horace, Calvin, Tommy were already there while the old boys Chris, Matthew, Jordon were behind schedule as usual.(Boys, u should be in time!!!!!!!!). We all arrived the courts around 2.30 n started to hit some balls. As two of the CU boys arrived, Tony n Calvin stepped up to play two single match to kick off the day. Tony's opponent was a lefty with Nadal's new racquet, however, Tony was Ferderer on grass yesterday to edge the opponent 6-4 to record our first win. Calvin had a shaky start coz this was his first official match in his less than a year tennis career n lost 0-6. As the match proceeded, we found we had a upper hand gradually as Chris won his single by 6-0, Matthew n Tony won their double with the same score while Horace n Tommy lost to two experienced player by 3-6. Jordon played a single with a girl later on n he was gentleman enough to give the girl two games(this is his version coz we saw him fight hard!! hahaa..). Chris n I played a double match with their coach paired with the CU Nadal, thanks Chris for saving my face as we won by 6-3 in a close match. We played some more doubles till 5.30 n ended the day with some snack in the CU canteen.
I'm pleased with the result as this is the first match the WYK team played with me as a coach.
However, there's still some aspect to improve:
1. In time!!!!!
2. come on, "shy" is not the word for a boy in a secondary school.(ESPECIALLY WHEN U MEET A GIRL!!!)
3. U have to be focus in every single point till the match finished.
I would like to have a big thanks to Joseph n our co-ordinator Jordon for their help to organize the match. Joseph took some photos n he will uploaded to the wyktennis web. soon. Finally, salute to the CU team for their hospitality n looking forward to play with them again in the near future.
Cheers
Ernest
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good news, a good junior player is going to be a WYK student next year.
Cheers
Ernest
I have uploaded the photos from our friendly match to the photo album of www.wyktennis.com
Check it out!
It was nice to see the team playing well at CU. I didn't see any stage fright that day but instead I saw some nice return of serves, volleys, and passing shots that really raised some eyebrows.
Let's thank Ernest in arranging this friendly match for us and also introduce 'Thai Gor' to us.
What he had done for the group of young tennis players really amazed me and I gave my salute to him.
Cheers,
Joseph
o, the volley was a bad miss!!!
It sounded a fun and competitive day with some nice singles and doubles matches at CUHK.
We had a similar outing when I was in Form Five of WYK. We were invited by Ambrose to play against the HKU Tennis Team / Medical Tennis Team. It was an eye-opening experience to play against senior players at Pofulam. Ambrose was the only strong player in the opposition and WYK team won pretty easily even with a Team that only came 4th in Interschools Competition. It must be my last competitive match with Bruce Tse.
Raymond :
I do remember that match vs HKU too n history repeated yesterday, hahaa.
Cheers
Erenst
Regarding the element of mixed competition when playing with or against girls, most of us naturally slow our shots, so we should not blame Louvre.
Without mentioning names, one of my fellow players told me that it was quite difficult to focus on his tennis shots when playing for Rovers against a former female top junior player (and later turned professional player).
Simon is the only player among my generation hitting the same pace shots against women so long as he wins the point.
I was threatened to be sued for causing grevious bodily harm when playing a couple of passing shots against the ladies player at the net in the UK. Thus my tennis was never the same standard after receiving the threat
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