Hey guys!

We missed last week's blog because we were off for spring break and nothing happened except that we all could get some rest from the first part of the semester. But now we are back after a disappointing week. We started practicing on Sunday, continued on Monday with an extremely difficult day of practices. On Tuesday we traveled to Francis Marion thinking we were ready to beat the Patriots, but it didn't go as well as we thought it was going to. We were struggling with doubles, but fortunately we won two out of three. Even though we won 7:2 at the end, we were not happy with our performance. The things we had been focusing on in practice did not show through in our match play. This is obviously very frustrating for the coaches and for us. So we went back to Savannah and had an even harder practice and the coaches challenged us both mentally and physically by putting us on the treadmill unexpectedly. The goal of this conditioning was to prepare us for the most challenging match of the season versus the Lynn University Fighting Knights.

On Thursday around 1 p.m. we hit the road to Boca Raton. After a long bus ride we were all ready to get some rest. While we were getting our beauty sleep the fire alarm in the hotel went off around midnight. Now thinking about it, maybe it was a bad sign for the upcoming battle.

The day of the match everyone felt good and confident. We started off with 3-0 after doubles. We kept the momentum going in the singles, but the Knights fought back after a 4-0 deficit and beat us in the deciding match 7:6 in the third set. The loss is disappointing for all of us, but it was a lesson and we look forward to a possible rematch at Nationals. 

Goooo Pirates!

We'll be back next Friday hopefully with better news.

 

PS: hahhhh es mi sem lehetunk tokeletesek!!!!

What's up, guys?! It's Friday again and time to update you about Armstrong Women's Tennis. Since we had our match on Sunday against Valdosta State Universtiy, #3 in the nation, our weekend started off with practice on Saturday morning. Valdosta came to Armstrong well prepared. The matches were tough, physically as well as mentally. After doubles, we were up 2:1, which means we experienced our first doubles loss during this season. Our coaches gave us support and strength to compete well in the singles matches. Even though our #1 player won easily, our coach was right when he said that the matches were going to be long and challenging. After a long, sunny and hot day of tennis, we came out as winners. We ended up with a result of 6:3. The rest of the week was easy because we just had a few practices. We had time to catch up with our school work. The match for Saturday was cancelled, so we were able to get ready for a match that is to take place on Monday.  This will be our only match of the week, which is also the week of our Spring Break. We are looking forward to playing against a Divison 1 school.
Hopefully we can keep up with a good performance.

Hey everyone. The lady pirates are back after a long, successful week. After our first blog we had time to enjoy our weekend due to the fact that the two away matches we were scheduled to play were canceled. After two days without scheduled practice we went back to the courts to get ready for our most challenging match so far against NAIA champion, Auburn Montgomery. After winning all three doubles we were confident going into the singles. We won five out of six singles. Sona Novakova, our No. 1 freshman, got her revenge against No.1 NAIA player Delia Sescioreanu whom she had lost to in the superbowl final last semester. "Even though I lost last time, I didn't think about the past and was able to focus and keep fighting for each point", said Novakova. The team and the coaches could not have been happier with our performance. After the effective day, we met up on the track to do our conditioning and then headed to the gym to do weight lifting. Since the coaches were on the road with the men's team, it was a little bit different not having them there to motivate us.  However, I feel the girls did a great job of pushing each other. We had two matches in the next two days. One of them was against the Junior College Champion Hillsborough CC and todays match was against UNC Pembroke who are in our Peach Belt Conference . We completed the matches with 9:0 wins. Our next match is going to be on Sunday against Valdosta State University. We are all looking forward to this challenge.