Tennis Megathread - General

I have my first match of the season, and really ever, this Thursday.

You better win or I'll beat you up

ummm u guys know this is about wii tennis right? dont make me get perfumly to ban for off topic discussion

Just won a doubles competition this Saturday.

Nice, bruh. I'll hopefully win my uni one. I think We're in the Quarterfinals right now but I don't know for sure.

another match won and now I'm in the semi's for singles

and single u will stay

:(

I've got a team match tonight at 7:45. I think I'm going to play doubles with my roommate and then our two other team mates are playing singles. WE GON KICK THEIR ASS

Fucking ass shit, today's match was cancelled because of weather, and I was gonna call in school sick today, but I wanted to go to the match. Instead we just conditioned inside, fucking shit.

That sucks, man. :( I won my team match and I'm supposed to have a singles one tomorrow but IDK if that's going to happen or not

Fuck sack ive gotta coach for 3 hours tomorrow morning but ive gotta party tonight and will most likly be hung over

I have played several matches hung over. As long as I'm angry but focused I do pretty well. Bear in mind what you're trying to do and be nice to yourself for tomorrow. Drink a lot of water before you go to bed and have some ready for when you wake up. I have my semi-final match in like 45 min. Currently stretching and listening to music to get me pumped. Wish me luck!

God damn I love tennis. Been playing for about five years, now.

I lost my singles match. But I'm still in it for doubles and team tennis. Also, I've been playing tennis for about three years myself. I'm self taught.

After reading the whole thread, either I really suck at tennis or everyone is a liar. Probably a bit of both.

What do you mean?

I suck at tennis compared to you guys. [editline]18th April 2011[/editline] Well I only started playing competitively last year for my school, and before that I've probably only been to two tennis programs during elementary school.

Our whole team lost today. Oh well, other team would do dinky serves for at least their second serve, and some for both. We double faulted a lot, but at least we are learning to do it correctly, and in the long run, we'll be better. [editline]18th April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=FalcoLombardi;29280479]I suck at tennis compared to you guys. [editline]18th April 2011[/editline] Well I only started playing competitively last year for my school, and before that I've probably only been to two tennis programs during elementary school.[/QUOTE] Dude no worries, I just started this year.

[QUOTE=shatteredwindow;29285418]Our whole team lost today. Oh well, other team would do dinky serves for at least their second serve, and some for both. We double faulted a lot, but at least we are learning to do it correctly, and in the long run, we'll be better. [editline]18th April 2011[/editline] Dude no worries, I just started this year.[/QUOTE] I do dainty second serves too. I only do real second serves if we are winning by a good margin, like 40-0 or if the set score is something like a difference of 3 (4-1).

Well our coach is trying to teach us to do real serves, not the crappy serves we used to do. Sure, the crap serves are in, and the real serves are crap, but in the long run, it's better to learn to do a real serve instead of a dink serve. He also wants us to do slice serves as our second serve. I can get the spin easily, I cannot for some reason get it forward, and when I do, I can't aim it very well, usually goes on the same side instead of opposite.

My serve, for the most part, is pretty consistent. However, sometimes I have retarded mind lapses.

I won the team tennis tourney! I got my picture taken and won a shirt! The last team we played had a guy with the fastest serve I've ever seen. I was like 'WAT'

Goddammit, 2/3 games cancelled, oh well, tomorrow should be fine. But goddamn, my slice serve! I can get the spin, but can't get it to go forward enough, it always lands on my side of the court.

Fucking shit. Again, today's game cancelled, not because of weather though. Apparently all but 4 people on the other team are sick or something, so they cancelled.

Wow sounds like you're having shit luck. I have my semi finals doubles match Tuesday. Get excited!

[QUOTE=Binsky;29320233]I won the team tennis tourney! I got my picture taken and won a shirt! The last team we played had a guy with the fastest serve I've ever seen. I was like 'WAT'[/QUOTE] Hell yeah we did :D. And yeah, that guy had the nastiest kick serve I've ever seen.

It kind of blew my mind...

Been playing for 13 years but havent played competitivly in ages. Hopefully ill start again at uni

[QUOTE=shatteredwindow;29324772]But goddamn, my slice serve! I can get the spin, but can't get it to go forward enough, it always lands on my side of the court.[/QUOTE] I've seen people try to do backspin serves in matches before and it doesn't seem very effective. It only really works when you can catch them off guard, but most people have been playing long enough to catch it and then you're basically just giving them the ball. But who knows, maybe if you do a bunch of regular flat serves through most of the match then you can sneak a slice serve in on them and get a point.