Well I am officially on a roll! I won my 2nd week as well 6-1, 6-3. Very weird to have the same score 2 weeks in a row.
I played Jack who is new to the league. I think he is much better than how he played. While we were warming up he was hitting nice shots, deep with lots of spin. When practicing serves I think he missed like 1 out of 9. I really thought I was in for a long night after warming up.
Everything changed once play began. He almost never got his first serve in. His 2nd serve was soft lob over the net. His returns were almost always inside the service line and soft. I spent 80% of my time coming to the net. I came to the net off my first serves, his second serves, and anytime he hit short.
My biggest question is how did I lose 3 games in the 2nd ? Well I think it is just cockiness on my part and him getting warmed up. I seem to do that frequently. If I win a first set in a big way I slack off or go for too many crazy shots in the 2nd and begin losing points. With this league all about points every game counts. My goal is to move up again to 3.5 and in order to accomplish that I need lots of points. This is something I need to work on.