I Should Have Won That Match
by Rohan Bhatia
(Nashik, Maharashtra, India)
My story is about the semi finals u-12 nationals I was playing last may in Mumbai, India.
My match was against an opponent whom I had played many a times during the last four years being in the same age group & had been loosing in last few meetings.
The match began & in no time I was up 5-3 serving for the set. I was able to put in my serves & I was up 40-0, three set points, and then I do not know what happened, I double faulted twice & lost the game & set & the match from there.
Looking back at 40-0, I had a defensive mindset, I just wanted to put my serve in the box & wanted my opponent to make a mistake & gift me the set.
I have learnt from my mistake & now I try to end the points rather than wait for the opponent to gift me points.
