Champion! Finally!

I won Men's A at this year's Happy Joe's racquetball tournament down in Grand Forks. I'd entered A about 5 or so times previously without winning, but came through this year.

I played well in my matches, especially serving. In the final, I hit a drive Z serve to the left on the first serve of the match, and my opponent, Dan Rohrbach, blew it up - skipped the ball big time. So, I thought let's try that again. It was effective, and the only serve I hit in game one, except for one drive to the right side.

I also played in 35+, where I lost in the semi-finals to Bill Webb. I wasn't drive serving that well in the first game of that match, so in game two I switched to doing a lob serve to the left (Webb's backhand), which worked well. However, in the tie-breaker I didn't make any shots at all, and the couple or so times I got to serve my Webb hit the lob serve out of the air to get the rally going. I lost that one 11-0. Ouch.

But I'm happy with the Men's A title.