Tennis

Tennis is and always has been my main athletic focus. Although I am not a very active person, I really enjoy playing tennis and it is the only sport that I have stuck by and never stopped playing. This year, I made the tennis team at ISK. This means that I attend three practices a week, two of which take place before the school day begins. On top of these practices, I will have four matches against other schools and one tournament. My main goal is to improve my service game since the service is the worst part of my playing. I regulary practice serving in the team practices and measure how much I have improved by seeing how many service games I win in matches against other players.
I have already played two of my matches, one of which was singles and one which was doubles. The singles match I played in early September was against a Varsity team tennis player from Rosslyn Academy. I found this game to be extremely challenging as my opponent was a better player than me and was able to make the game difficult for me. Although he was a better player, I tried my hardest to make the game interesting by sending him some challenging shots. I ended up losing the match with a score of 6-3, but I was not at all dissapointed by this result because I felt that I had given the game my all and tried as best I could to win.
The second match that I played in early October was a doubles match, and my partner was Tatiana Zeller, also an ISK student. We played against two students from the West Nairobi school, but neither of us found this game very exciting. We won the game with a score of 6-0 and although we won, we did not find this game fun or interesting because we did not have to put a lot of effort into winning. I personally feel as though I did not improve as a player from this game, but it did give me a chance to practice my serving, which is the weakest part of my tennis game. I already feel as though my service has improved as my first serves have become more powerful and are more difficult for the opponent to return.