Regionals this weekend - why am I psyching myself out? (Results)
I've got 3.0 regionals coming up this weekend. There are three other teams playing, and I'll be playing singles each day.
I've got a winning record in 3.5 league singles this year, won a 3.5 designated tournament from the round of 16, and can pull games, sets, and sometimes matches off of players in the lower end of 4.0. I don't have a problem playing pushers or generating my own pace and basically sticking to my own game. When I did play for my 3.0 team I lost a total of five games in three matches.
All of this, and I'm still nervous about 3.0 regionals. Part of it is that I'm expected to win, to the point where my teammates have already put points from my wins in the bank. The other part is that I completely choked at regionals last year.
Any help here? Is there ever a point where you're pretty much going to roll over an opponent, nerves bedamned? The level of play there last year was average for a 3.0, and even though I completely choked in the one singles match I played I still drug it into a tiebreak.
Frankly, I can't wait for the experience to be over. Hopefully I'll come out with three decisive wins and exorcise the one demon that still haunts me (that 0-6, 6-7 loss last year).
I've got 3.0 regionals coming up this weekend. There are three other teams playing, and I'll be playing singles each day.
I've got a winning record in 3.5 league singles this year, won a 3.5 designated tournament from the round of 16, and can pull games, sets, and sometimes matches off of players in the lower end of 4.0. I don't have a problem playing pushers or generating my own pace and basically sticking to my own game. When I did play for my 3.0 team I lost a total of five games in three matches.
All of this, and I'm still nervous about 3.0 regionals. Part of it is that I'm expected to win, to the point where my teammates have already put points from my wins in the bank. The other part is that I completely choked at regionals last year.
Any help here? Is there ever a point where you're pretty much going to roll over an opponent, nerves bedamned? The level of play there last year was average for a 3.0, and even though I completely choked in the one singles match I played I still drug it into a tiebreak.
Frankly, I can't wait for the experience to be over. Hopefully I'll come out with three decisive wins and exorcise the one demon that still haunts me (that 0-6, 6-7 loss last year).
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