Won 7-5 6-3
I had a 40 minute warm up, and I was soooo bad
Hadn't played against anyone in a month and a half, spraying ball everywhere
Luckily I managed to get a grip in the last few minutes, then we started. I surprised myself by going up *2-0, before the typical Melbourne wind began to fuck with us
Lost that lead, to *2-2, then played a long deuce game. My flat first serve was going in at least 60% time, and it was quite powerful, so I was at least in control of my service games, and had it been calmer weather, it could have been a serve fest. I held, broke, and got up *4-2, but a double and few untimely errors made me lost that break. Luckily I broke him again for *5-3 when he was serving some pretty massive serves, and had a lot of gps. Then I had my worst service in the set, maybe match, and got broken to love
He held with some big serves to 30, then I had to serve at *5-5. I saved a lot of bps, and I had to resort to a slice serve with the wind, and he was slicing his returns more as well. Bp down, I nearly lost, but reached out and just hit a one handed bh moonball, then hit some weird lobby topspin shot, that was perfect, but I had no idea how I did it:spit: I held, then saved gps in the next game and won the set
The 2nd set, the weather cleared up, and I got to *2-0. But I relaxed a bit, and he got it back to *2-2. In that game, I had some really good shots, it was the best game of the match, I did the serve down the T+Big Fh into deuce corner+wrong foot opponent, big FH into deuce corner again
I began the wrong foot him more, hitting big shots, then hitting to the same spot when he went to cover the gap, and he was hitting some powerful topspin
I held, then held from 0-30
, then I got the last 3 games with some good serves and FH
One of the best matches I've played, and hopefully I can translate it to the tournament I'm playing at AO time