My favourite sport is tennis and it's been going on for a good 8 years now. Despite having a somewhat boring childhood (i was in the chinese orchestra for 6 years in school), i always know I'm an active person and i can excel in sports.
So when i got into my junior colleage, I've decided to do something beside chinese classical music. Upon finishing the freshie orientation program, I immediately sign up for the colleague's tennis club selection. Of course I wasn't selected... my years of watching tennis on TV totally did not translate into any real life skill... haha... what am i thinking?!?
Fast forward 5 years and I found myself in NUS. My urge to learn tennis emerged again. This time I am very determined. I went to sign up for a tennis class at the Spore Sports Council all by myself! So I went for my 10 tennis classes. They were really fun :) There were 3 guys and 9 ladies. I like to think that I'm somehow quite gifted in tennis... hehe... i was easily the best student in the class. With an awesome forehand and balls of confidence, i immediately signed up for an intermediate class. Now, the intermediate class was even more exciting. The students are definitely more skilfull and focus than those from the beginner's class. I totally enjoyed the class and made some really nice tennis kakis.
Despite having better strokes, i still find my backhand a major weakness. The 2000s period is an era of the double-backhanders (Marat Safin, Leyton Hewitt, Andy Roddick, Williams Sisters, Martina Hingis etc.). So most people learned and played tennis using two hands to hit a double backhand and I'm one of them. Somehow, my double backhand didn't seem to unlease like my fellow kakis, despite have good progression. I tried and tried many times on court to improve my movement, body rotation etc. but to no avail.
My tennis improvement reached a plateau... until I saw Justine...
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