USTA Team - Played singles tonight

Tonight I played #2 singles for our 3.0 USTA Team. It was great. First of all, I played against James, who I played a lot of doubles with through the winter when we played indoors, and I think this was the first time I've even seen him for over a month. When I found out I was going to be playing against him, I was pretty psyched. Not only do I get along well with him, but I feel like I was the slightly stronger player. At least it seemed that way when we played doubles, just a month or so ago.  What I didn't take into account was the fact that every time I've played with James in the past, he was always somewhat tired because he always played a match right before we played, so I've always seen the worn down James.

So the first set started out right. I think I won the first 3 games, which is almost my typical pattern, even on my recent losing streak. Then true to my pattern, I got tired, or lazy, or whatever, and my game went to crap for a while. Meanwhile James was waking up,and he quickly caught up. Then we had a very good match, which I barely scraped out a win with 7-5,4-6,1-0. Our 10 pt tie break was tight to, but i won that 10-8.

Very nice match. Good night.