It was cold and it was windy as the tennis team travelled to East Lansing for regionals…
It started off around 40 degrees and windy, and finished about 60 degrees and really windy.
Match 1: Against Owosso….we win 6-0, 6-1. Not Kevin’s finest moments. He double faulted. A lot. They won the one game because he double faulted every point to them. Just brutal to watch.
Match 2: Against East Lansing (again). we win 7-6 (7-3), 6-3. Not Kevin’s finest moments. He double faulted. A lot. The one reason that the first set went to tiebreaker was Kevin’s inability to get one of two serves in……
To be fair, he did play well, and I commented to Suzanne often that I am impressed by how much his ground strokes and volleys have improved this year…he does a great job of placing the ball when he returns it and often turns bad situations into good ones that way.
But man, the double-faulting was horrific. He finally (finally) got his act together and was really hitting his serves in the 2nd set. It was really windy; a lot of kids struggled with the wind but I don’t think he would use the wind as an excuse (he hasn’t yet) and I don’t think it was the reason…..I don’t know what the reason was.
Match 3 (Regional Final). Lost to Dow 6-2, 6-4. The double-faulting was better, but still a big problem…he gave away points to a really good team, and you are not going to beat a really good team handing them extra points.
Making the regional final ensured that Kevin and Ross will be in the state tournament next week. I think the whole team qualified too (if you get a certain number of points as a team everyone goes….I think we hit that threshold).
That boy had better spend some quality time over the next week working on his serve!
