Thought I'd give a low-down on my first ever tennis season.
NYJC 0 HCJC 5. Our first match was against Nanyang JC, and I played my first ever match. I played doubles and we won 9-1. We had a relatively easy match against NYJC.
HCJC 3 AJC 2. Anderson was one of the schools that were on par with us, and the match was really really close. The turning point of the match was definitely the first doubles. We were down 1-4, 2-5 before winning 6 straight games to lead 8-5 and eventually winning it 9-7.
HCJC 0 RJC 5. We were expecting to get trashed by RJ anyway. RJ, the defending champs, had quite a number of seeded players in their team, and they had the No.1 player. We were really trashed.
YJC 0 HCJC 5. Quite an easy match.
HCJC 1 VJC 4. This loss hurts the most. We needed to win VJ to get to the semis, after this loss, we couldn't. What hurts more is the fact that we were actually had quite a huge lead in two matches and just lost them in the end. And the home court advantage wasn't a factor as the VJ guys team came down to support the girls and we totally lost out to them in terms of cheering, at home ground.
JI 2 HCJC 3. OK. To be honest, we were expecting to trash them to make up for the loss to VJ. We totally had underestimated JI. We found out just before the match that AJC actually only beat them 3-2. We lost the first two singles and were down 0-2, but we managed to win the last 3 matches. The JI girls were quite difficult to handle, had trouble umpiring a match. And the weather was bad.
Overall, we won 4 and lost 2. I only played 1 match. The coach decided to change the line-up several times. Obviously, since I am quite lousy and I played very badly during training, I didn't get much chance to play. My doubles partner also fell sick during the last few games. We were very disappointed with the loss to VJ, but we the J1s have vowed to come back next year.