Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 3:09 pm
It was finally time to get into the game with Odelia and IllusiveTramp getting their chance to win a qualifier and get into the main tournament which they missed during the last tournament in Ceni. When their time came they would take the court to face off against the Flexanewmega pair Massimo and Hoorain. “Suppose we try to do a little better this time?” Odelia asked during the opening serve and after being the one to hit the return “Suppose we should.” IllusiveTramp answered.
The two of them were able to start off with a two point lead which was a lot better than their first go around working together on the doubles side of things. It was a starting set that was up to the Flexanewmega players to play catch up with, which they did end up doing valiantly though they were never actually able to catch up either due to being in the wrong place where the ball landed or serving faults that messed up both sides here and there. The two point lead however would never go away for the Salmagundi team and the final score would end at six to four to go onto the next set with. The opening game of the second set would see their competition take the first point after a rather brief back and forth before the Salmagundi pair once again built their first set lead. Their competition would manage to snag one more point before the two of them took the rest of the games for themselves leaving the Flexanewmega players just two points to show for the second set thus losing the match. With that being that Odelia and IllusiveTramp were able to win their first match even if it was a qualifier placing them on even footing with their teammates Milo and ProudSmith’s score match wise.
“If we win our first match in the tournament proper we will be the ones to knock the Flexanewmega team out of the doubles side of the competition. Be a real shame if it ends up being that way and it would really suck to lose right at the start of another tournament like last time. Real predicament.” ProudSmith observed.
“Guess that is how the setup turns out sometimes.” Was all Milo could reply with. The idea of an either it is us or them mentality was not really a thing to be considered for them even if that was the nature of competition. “Least tomorrow it is just the singles side of the tournament.”
“You did it.” Milo said cheerfully once the team was back together and the qualifiers were over with. “Now we just have to be able to do the same tomorrow.”
With the qualifiers out of the way the team decided that they should get at least one additional day of practicing in before they were all competing to stay in the tournament tomorrow. This time around focusing on the one versus one switching out to have all of them play against each other while trying to have some fun with it. Tomorrow would be a more serious day after all so today was the last day to be as not serious as possible.
The two of them were able to start off with a two point lead which was a lot better than their first go around working together on the doubles side of things. It was a starting set that was up to the Flexanewmega players to play catch up with, which they did end up doing valiantly though they were never actually able to catch up either due to being in the wrong place where the ball landed or serving faults that messed up both sides here and there. The two point lead however would never go away for the Salmagundi team and the final score would end at six to four to go onto the next set with. The opening game of the second set would see their competition take the first point after a rather brief back and forth before the Salmagundi pair once again built their first set lead. Their competition would manage to snag one more point before the two of them took the rest of the games for themselves leaving the Flexanewmega players just two points to show for the second set thus losing the match. With that being that Odelia and IllusiveTramp were able to win their first match even if it was a qualifier placing them on even footing with their teammates Milo and ProudSmith’s score match wise.
“If we win our first match in the tournament proper we will be the ones to knock the Flexanewmega team out of the doubles side of the competition. Be a real shame if it ends up being that way and it would really suck to lose right at the start of another tournament like last time. Real predicament.” ProudSmith observed.
“Guess that is how the setup turns out sometimes.” Was all Milo could reply with. The idea of an either it is us or them mentality was not really a thing to be considered for them even if that was the nature of competition. “Least tomorrow it is just the singles side of the tournament.”
“You did it.” Milo said cheerfully once the team was back together and the qualifiers were over with. “Now we just have to be able to do the same tomorrow.”
With the qualifiers out of the way the team decided that they should get at least one additional day of practicing in before they were all competing to stay in the tournament tomorrow. This time around focusing on the one versus one switching out to have all of them play against each other while trying to have some fun with it. Tomorrow would be a more serious day after all so today was the last day to be as not serious as possible.