March 10 - Tennis Tuesdays

Hannah & Julia

Forget 'Taco Tuesday', we now call the second day of the week 'Tennis Tuesday.' Julia's first tennis match was last week and she and her partner were doubles team #2 (out of 4). They did a great job and won their first match! This is how tennis works here (maybe everywhere, I have no idea as this was my first experience):

Total Courts: 6

Court 1: Singles #1 top players (8th grade)

Court 2: Singles #1 top players (7th grade)

Court 3: Singles #2 players (8th grade)

Court 4: Singles #2 players (7th grade)

Court 5: Doubles #1 team (8th grade)

Court 6: Doubles #1 team (7th grade)

They play to game 6 and the girls keep score themselves. Doubles #2 (8th grade) takes the first available court, then doubles #2 (7th grade). And so on and so on. I'd estimate that 95% of the girls there looked like they were playing for the first time at the match last week and everyone appeared to be having fun! The Brookside 7th grade girls all won their matches, which was pretty exciting!

The second match was yesterday. Julia and her partner were moved to doubles team #3 (they aren't sure why as they haven't played against the other teams in practice but that was the coaches decision and they respected it). The team yesterday was much more advanced then our girls and I think they won every match. Julia and her partner were only able to play to game 4 because they stopped the entire event at 5.30pm due to busses leaving. They still had fun though!!