2011 began with the shocking retirement of 2 players from the tour. However, the remaining trio vow to carry on nevertheless. After 2 weeks break, we had a warm up game last week. This week however was a the proper start to the season.
Ben display some fine backhands and volleying as well as charging up to net. However, he seems to be missing his forehand early on. I was pretty much under the caution early on with some of Ben's deft touches and all the unforced errors on my side. Ben even dropped his racquet showing signs of frustration. Usually, Im the one showing lots of negative emotion on court. Late on in the game however, Ben found his forehand and the rallies are getting from side to side front and back. It seems that both me and Ben has found what was missing early on. The sad part was it lasted only ten minutes and the match was halted.
Story of the day belong to Dan. While Ben might be the best player today, Dan has shown much improvement in his game play. While Ben has been ranting on his new volleying kinda game, Dan quitely show how it is done effectively. I must say even though its not part of Dan's gameplay, he has to be the best volleyer on the tour. Dan started slowly but later on manage to hit winners and force error in his game against me. That just got me fire up and I blast past him great forehand winners of my own. Once a whipping boy now a class of his own.
Rating of Players as of 22 January 2011's game:
Ben: 7.5
Dan: 7
Nizlan: 6.75
Next week promises more great tennis from the last 3 survivor of sengkang ATP. Until then, take care until next time.
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