Knees shaking, sweat dripping into my eyes, I began to wonder what if I wasn’t good enough. I’ll never be as good as those girls on the other side of the fence, these thoughts ran through my mind the day that I first picked up a tennis racket. All you gotta do is toss the ball and hit it. How hard can it be? However, just my luck my first ball dove right into the ground and my second one made a nice home run right over the fence. After numerous attempts my ball finally clears the net.
Home meet. All my extra practicing and hard work have led up to this moment. If I win the next set i’ll have won my first tennis match ever. I can’t let my partner down. Next thing I knew my ball fires right past my opponent. In the distance I hear my mother cheering and my teammates clapping. I shake my opponent's hands and breathe a sigh of relief. …show more content…
The hardest season by far. I was all alone and playing singles at very competitive level. I fall short to the same opponents over and over. I lost hope and at times broke down and cried. Through all the tears and doubt I will never forget what my coach told me,“things aren’t always going to go the way you want them to, but you have to learn to move on because that’s just how life is”. This quote comes to mind not only when I’ve lost a match but also when I’m having a terrible day and something at work or school is not going the way I want it to. Learning to move on and being able to grow from something throughout the season allowed me to bounce back and beat opponents I had lost to earlier in the