Every time I play a real tennis match I get this butterflies in my stomach. I don’t know why but I’m always like that. Of course, it does affect how I play because I tend to play it safe. What I mean is I don’t hit the ball as hard as I use to (like in practice). Any advise that you all can give me?

Anyway, I had my first official tennis singles match last month and surprisingly, I won! It was a 3.0 USTA Mens League and I actually couldn’t believe it myself. I won on a 3 set match, 7-6, 3-6, 6-4. I even twisted my ankle a lil bit on the second set. But I kept on playing, didn’t feel it really during the match but afterwards, I couldn’t even walk. But yeah, singles is a lot of fun. I like playing singles better than doubles now! lol

We played at Baker Park last weekend for the districts, we won the Baltimore County 6.0 League Mixed Doubles. Our team gets to compete with the other counties in Maryland and it was a great experience. This was the second time our team gets to the districts and last year, I lost my match. I think the score was 3-6, 4-6. But this year, I did a lot better. That’s because I had a lot more confidence on myself and I have more experience (considering I’ve only started playing tennis 3 years ago!). So we won my match, the scores was 6-3, 6-1 against Frederick County.

Congratulations, by the way, to Roger Federer for winning the French Open this year. He has tied with Pete Sampras with the most grand slam titles. I was hoping he would win it when Rafael Nadal got crushed by Soderling in the 4th round. With Pete Sampras not winning a French Open title in his career, in my opinion, Roger just became the best tennis player ever. Also, with Roger winning the French Open title, he also became the 6th player to achieve a Career Grand Slam.

Roger Federer winning the French Open 2009