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Name: Cameron
Location: Indiana, United States
Birthday: 8/30/1983
Gender: Male
Interests: inspirational stories, college basketball, the us open, sitters to the forehand side, waitresses who try to make jokes, cowboy hats, mitch hedberg, and scrappers...
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  WimbledonKing
Member Since:
12/30/2005
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| for a long time, it's been a sort of life goal of mine to play tennis on a clay court. i had watched clay court tennis on tv and heard of people who played on it, but to me it was always this exotic sort of tennis fantasy that i hadn't had the chance to realize. tonight the fantasy finally became reality. my usta team had the chance to play at the carmel racket club near indy on their famed clay courts...it wasn't exactly the red tirabatu of roland garros, but it was as good as i was going to get. and then i started playing... i slipped and slid everywhere for the first set and then had to tip toe around the court for the second to avoid any more slipping or sliding...changing directions was a nightmare...and sometimes balls would hit random mounds of clay that had built up on the court and bounce in the complete opposite direction. to me, the whole experience seemed like getting the chance to play basketball at assembly hall...but then right before playing, someone would dump a ton of sawdust all over the court and tell us to just play on top of it. hopefully this is just an isolated incident, and my other life goals will be much more fulfilling...like my goal to one day meet mitch hedberg and my other goal be a season ticket holder of a wnba team. | | |
| well it's hard to believe it's all over. more than 15 years of tennis is all but gone. looking back on it, i'm a little disappointed. i wish i would have done so much better in so many matches...wish i would have done a few more sprints...a few more reps in the weight room...wish i could do it over again. i had a lot of fun along the way, but i just don't feel like i reached my potential...and that's a really hard thing to cope with right now. if i could just have that conference weekend to do over again...i'd show em. | | |
| just finished a double header at franklin today, taking out a coupla conference foes and getting some serious windburn in the process. gosh, i hate wind. the match went pretty well though, i think. jeremy and i are really feeling it in doubles. no exaggeration, i bet we could play the bryan brothers tonight and win 8-6. it's gotten pretty fun to have him put a serve on the t, and then i just get to pound volleys all day. singles was a little shakier. i won both of em in straight sets, but i was still a little unsure about it. part of me wants to serve and volley and part of me wants to stay back and pound from the baseline, and what typically ends up happening is something in the middle that tends to not win too many points. today i stayed back mostly and was fairly comfortable. it's good to start to realize again that defense can be just as much of a weapon as a huge forehand. plus i think people probably heard that my high school won the state title...so that probably makes 'em more than a little scared. if i could just play tennis like zach hahn plays basketball... | | |
| as it turns out, the rumors are true...ball state has a pretty decent tennis team. unfortunately, we at au aren't quite up the their level yet, but i think just having the opportunity to play them was a huge step in helping us get where we need to be. after getting waxed at every spot, i've come to realize that the difference between their strokes and ours is fairly minimal. with a few exceptions, it was pretty clear that their best shots were no better than our best shots. the difference was that it seemed like every time they hit the ball, they expected to be able to hit their best shots and have them go in. when we'd hit ours, it was more of a risk, hoping that they would go in every once in a while. that mindset that they had is one that i feel like we can effectively create in the next 4 or 5 weeks if everyone gets on board..and i think that'll be a huge step in allowing us to crush teams like hanover and transy.
also this weekend was a wedding...josh and heidy are married...how weird is that??? | | |
| had our home opener yesterday as a doubleheader against transy and hanover, and it didn't exactly go as planned. ever since last year, transy was the team that i think most of us were thinking about...just waiting to get a shot at. for the last three years they've pretty much owned the conference, and we thought (and still think) that this year we could give em a run for their money. as it turned out, we lost 8-1, but, as cliche as it sounds, i think (or at least hope) we all learned a lot from it. i didn't get to play because of an injury, so the first thing i learned was that i need to take care of my body. no more drinking pop all the time and eating fast food. no more slacking off on the lifting and running. if i end up losing at the end of this season, it's not going to be because i wasn't in good enough shape. but the most important thing i hope everyone took from that match is that, for the first time since i've been here, transy isn't completely out of our league. it's one thing to have a hope of beating them (as in my first couple years here), but it's another thing to know that that hope is legit. last year i thought we had a legit shot, and this year we have another. with a full lineup, i really think we'd match up well, and there's not a single person on our team who isn't capable of taking down his opponent. i guess at this point, it's all hope and all talk...but in another month or so, we'll get another shot. | | |
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