Dartagnan64
G.O.A.T.
Last night out club held a mixed shootout which is more of a social thing than a true competition to be honest.
Bunch of men and women 3.0-4.0 getting randomly assigned to play together for 8 games, no ad. 4 Rounds with 4 different partners and opponents.
It was a very strange event. For the first two rounds I felt I was totally beyond this. My partners were awful, my opponents were awful. I basically learned that the easiest way to victory was stand at the T and hit moon balls out of the air. Nobody could hit a passing shot worth beans so there was no danger. Then in the 4 th round the opponents were a challenge at least and we split the set 4 games a piece.
So they add up every's total games and the players with the most games won move on to playoffs and the rest get to drink beer, eat and watch. After my 4 mimi matches I was pretty much resigned to hating this event as it wasn't tennis. But I won enough games to get into the playoff. And everything changed. Basically the 3.5-4.0 ladies that I hadn't yet seen got into the mix and the men were at least 3.5 as well. I was paired with a solid partner and we cruised through winning the semifinal 5-1 and the final 5-1.
$50 club gift certificate and some restoration of faith in tennis at the end. The playoffs were a lot of fun and much higher quality play. The dreck tennis to get there was why I can see so many people don't like low level mixed. The key was to keep a social mind set about it and just work on volleys, overhead placement and not bemoan the fact that you haven't had a decent FH opportunity in 3 matches.
Bunch of men and women 3.0-4.0 getting randomly assigned to play together for 8 games, no ad. 4 Rounds with 4 different partners and opponents.
It was a very strange event. For the first two rounds I felt I was totally beyond this. My partners were awful, my opponents were awful. I basically learned that the easiest way to victory was stand at the T and hit moon balls out of the air. Nobody could hit a passing shot worth beans so there was no danger. Then in the 4 th round the opponents were a challenge at least and we split the set 4 games a piece.
So they add up every's total games and the players with the most games won move on to playoffs and the rest get to drink beer, eat and watch. After my 4 mimi matches I was pretty much resigned to hating this event as it wasn't tennis. But I won enough games to get into the playoff. And everything changed. Basically the 3.5-4.0 ladies that I hadn't yet seen got into the mix and the men were at least 3.5 as well. I was paired with a solid partner and we cruised through winning the semifinal 5-1 and the final 5-1.
$50 club gift certificate and some restoration of faith in tennis at the end. The playoffs were a lot of fun and much higher quality play. The dreck tennis to get there was why I can see so many people don't like low level mixed. The key was to keep a social mind set about it and just work on volleys, overhead placement and not bemoan the fact that you haven't had a decent FH opportunity in 3 matches.
