Mixed Doubles Sunday, January 20, 2008

Well...after a disappointing loss in our men's doubles in the morning, I came back strong in the evening with a great mixed doubles match. 

I'm playing mixed with a girl from Taiwan, Chan, and it was our first time playing together.  We started very slow against the #4 seeds, Zheng/Nestor, but broke back and broke again to take the first set 7-5.  Chan, or "Latisha," (which is the "American" name she chose) hit some huge returns forcing some errors off Nestor and we were home in the first. 

The 2nd set, we again got down a break and at 4-5 with Nestor serving it looked as though we were headed to the "super-breaker."  Latisha started us off with a great return, I then intimidated by drawing a double fault, then two points later we were back at 5all.  Two holds by each of the women and we were into the breaker where Latisha decided to take over.  She hit a big return, a couple first serves and a screaming winner down the line past Nestor.  All I had to do was slide in a couple lefty serves and put an overhead into the next court and we were into the 2nd round! 

 

We play again today (Monday) against Razzano-Wassen...

 

Booty