Challenge (pikleball), 3/26/2024

court#4: level 3.75	Court #5:  level 3.5	court#6: level casual
court#3:  level 4.0	court#2: strong 4.0  and above	Court #1: challenge (professional sometimes)

 

This morning, I felt a litter bored playing at court 4, 5 and 6.

 

Not knowing anybody at court#1, 2 and 3, I went to #2. Interesting enough they knew my name so one guy demanded to play with me. Obviously,  he was a strong 4.0+, so I was a little nervous since I never played with him before. 

 

During the game, I made a few mistakes on the left (dominate side) so he asked me to “slid”, a word I did’t quite understand. After I saw him rushed to my side I realized that he was asking me to change side for him to dominate. Too late, we lost a point. He was pretty upset then. 

 

We finally lost the game,  8 to 11. 

 

He looked upset and I was feeling a little embarrassed. Then he said since we lost we had to play on court #3. Being polite, he accompanied me to court #3 and paired with me again. He warned me at the beginning that we need to win or we have to go back to court#4, a lower level—3.75. 

 

He made me feel like taking an exam. So intimidating is this man. Fortunately uwe won, 12 to 10. 

 

Then he left to play on court#2 and court#1. I stayed on court 3. 

 

I won 2 more games on court #3 and I quit for today.

 

Will continue to play at 3 and 2, because I like challenge. i like to play with people whom I could lose to because I want to learn and improve.