3 times 5!

1st of all excuse my use of tense i right in i usually mix it up in the past or present cant be bothered being a nerd and correcting it to make sense, after all i dont go to school anymore no teachers gonna check it!..lol

What a weekend.. After about 2 hours of sleep after work we headed off to MataMata for the Squash Tourny. My game time was at 9pm, earliest out of the whole bunch. Ranked 2nd of out 8 in my draw i played a 15 yr old who i won easily against in Hamiltion not long ago. Started off good gettting the 1st set but playing like crap! sooo exhausted and all we ate was a burger and a few chips from some little shop because MataMata town is useless! The Countdown and New World were shut at 8pm what the hell aye? so only options were takeaways. I lost the 2nd set then 3rd..playing sooo bad worst i think ive ever played in my life not getting length off shots and tinning a lot. Down 13-8 in the 4th just 2 points away from the worst loss in my life i nearly gave up but kept the pressure on and my opponent folded. i managed to get up and win 16/14 to make the game go to 5 sets. fairly even until the 10 point mark i took off and won 15/11 in the 5th. What a relief, what a lucky win. I put this win down to experience, i have been in that position soo many times compared to the young buck i played. With so many entries, the last game happened to be one of crews games so we didnt get out til after 1am.

4.30 was my game time but we didnt get on court till about 5.45..stupid. Nothings worse then waiting around to play. I was up against another 15/16 yr old who is a giant i played in hamilton and lost to. i won the 1st set only just 20/18. lost the 2nd toooo tired. I had an argument with the ref who is in the top 10 in NZ but was making realy bad calls. dickhead. 3rd went to me but i didnt think i had much left in the tank. I pretty much threw the 4th set after i couldnt get anything going. 5 setter again. I couldnt get off to a good start but managed a comeback from when he was up 13-9ish. 12-14 down and i got to 13-14 then 14-14 (gotta win by 2) two weak shots and he takes the game 16/14 but was a really good game! soo long went for well over an hour. Could of went either way but i bet no one expected me to make such a huge comeback at the end, even his dad came and shook my hand and said how nervous he was watching haha. A lot of people told me the reffing was really bad in the game but i didnt blame that i was happy with the game. (Mike ends up winning the final of my draw 3/0 the next day.)

Quiet night in, waking up to snoring, crap sleep thats how sat night went ha. Was going to get up and drive to hamilton at like 1am because we were wide awake. 10am stupid hotel lady came in and said we have to get out right now because they were so busy when there was only 2 cars in the whole lodge? pfft.


Special plate final 12.45. Up against some retard who was way below me and played silly shots for C grade level frustrated the F*** outta me! At one point i even said "Is this C grade of F grade" lost the 1st set to him getting lucky, got the 2nd,lost the 3rd, fought hard to get the 4th. ANOTHER 5 setter. I started the set off not good but managed to get a lead then lost it but regained it. Winning 15/10 i think in the end was good. I mumbled a few words to him at the end because of his crap shots he was playing. If i didnt win that i would have been close to throwing squash in. The dude was a nice guy but everyone knows on court whatever happens on there stays on there. 3rd place was a good finish, $60 pretty useless prize for a $7grand spread of prizes! the bottom div's (div 8 and lower. i was in div 3) were getting $120 for 1st and other high prizes for others places which i dont agree on. the top div's should be getting higher money prizes since you have to be good enough to make the top ones! You could be real sneaky and just drop grades to win the money easy but then your not getting anywhere. I think the Top mens open draw winner got $750 which isnt actually that much for that level of play but cant complain. Good tourny overall! should be a tiny gain of points. Really made me think about whether or not to keep playing or not though. Its hard to keep up at this level where you need to be training at least 3 times a week to be good. However im joining the gym this week with a gym buddy ;) and am going to try get some fitness in a couple of times a week as im adjusting to my work hours finally. With hockey starting this weekend also that will keep me fit.

Ive decided to pull out of the Te puke Open in easter to play the Hawkes bay Open instead so i can work instead because we will be busy making hundreds of hot cross buns! and so i can have a long weekend. Other tournies coming up after that are my clubs' hosting the Hastings open and then the Central open (Palmy) could be likely.

Chur Chur!!