So for the past month or so, I've been doing something new: Tennis. It's been fun, I've been able to learn some things about team work, and the dynamic of it all has been something different, which is good, cause everyone needs a little difference in their life. What's been difficult about this new different challenge, are the matches. Never thought I would be good enough to really be able to play in a match, but I was able to play a few. All of which I lost. Wasn't fun. Yesterday was the last official tennis matches for the Junior Varsity, which was an all-day tournament. All in all, the Junior Varsity had a pretty good winning streak, so when I walked onto the court, I was pretty sure our match was going to end in victory. It didn't. First match was close, with the final score being 6-8, and I was okay with it. But second match it nothing short of slaughter. Our opponent's coach had the rule that every time the ball bounced on the white line, it counted as a point. Second match's final score was 2-8. My partner and I were pretty down in the dumps afterwards. I was upset cause for me the whole season has been nothing but losses for me. But as the story goes, your first year doing sports like tennis aren't exactly going to go well. This was also my first year of really getting to understand the pain of losing. Losing in family games is okay, cause there's just something about it that makes the feeling of losing easy. It still doesn't feel good, but it's a little less sharp in that case.
Losing in team sports, however, is an entirely different concept. This side of it is much sharper, much more painful, much more everything. I just don't know how to describe it. Losing in a team sport is like tripping into a mud puddle, only when you're trying to get up, someone just keeps shoving you in. I never understood why my brother was so upset coming home from basketball games after another loss, but I think I can understand where he came from a little better. The question remains, though: Will I be taking up the racquet again any time soon?? answer: I have no idea. After you end up losing so many times the first time you do a team sport, You find it hard to want to do it again. That's been the same problem with me. I want to do it again, but I just wonder: Will I lose again? Will it be as bad as the last season?Why do I want to do it again after taking so many losses? the best advice out there, though, is that if you want to get better at something, keep doing it. For those of you who might be rooting for me, I am thinking about doing it again, but we'll just have to wait and see.
