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The Match to win it all

Last week our team went down to Hilton Head South Carolina for our spring break trip to play schools from all over the country. The three school we played were Ill. Wesleyan, Marietta, and Concordia. 

Out of all these matches, Concordia was our hardest this is a team who has previously won their conference and made it a few rounds into the NCAA and was equal in skill to our rival school Messiah college.  

In doubles, it was tuff both 1 and 3 doubles lost but were extremely close both being a score of 8-6 and in 2nd doubles which I was apart of we overcame a 4-7 game deficit and won the match in a tie-break 10-8

Now down 1-2 going into singles we lost at 1 singles, as well as 6 singles both, lost in 3rd set tie breaks however we won at 3 and 4 singles 3 singles was a 3rd set win and 4 was won in straight sets.

The score overall is now 3-4, and as I and my doubles partner are resting up to take our singles matches the tension is certainly building for both teams.  My partner goes first at 2 singles, and finally, I went at 5 singles our team can't afford to lose one more match, because the first team to 5 matches wins the overall match

My partner won his match in straight sets putting the score at 4-4, and it had to come down to my match to decide it.  I had already won my first set 6-3 and was up 3-0 in the second, but my opponent was able to bring himself up to win the second set 4-6, and finally, it came down to another 3rd set tie-break.

By this point, the sun was almost down completely and I wear prescription transitional sunglasses while playing and they take a long time to clear up so I was basically playing at night with sunglasses on and with no lights perfect right?  Each point in this final tie-break to 10 felt like it lasted an eternity with neither one of us giving in and using every ounce of energy we had left to give.  But eventually, I came out on top and won the 3rd set 10-5.

It was a match that I hope I will not soon forget it really showed how much improvements I have made over the past year, and it has pumped me up and ready to go for our conference matches so far.

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