Author: Crisis

Today, I played Squash with Christopher Malenfant which I have regularly won a set against but rarely a match and never the first match we played in a session. Today was the first time I was able to win the first match in a tight 3:2 battle. We played one more set afterwards which I lost but who cares :-).

So the question is was there a recipe to success or was it just a random win. I believe there is of course some form of the day argument, but I generally followed the strategy to not play weak high cross courts, in particular returning the serve onto my backhand. Also I rather kept the ball long and reasonably tight. Dropping makes me commit too many mistakes. I have to work on that. Christopher retrieved really well, but generally once in the attacking position I could bring the point home.

Bottom line: this was a great day, I have to work on my strategy with Christopher and consider strategies to win the game with other players.

Tonight the MIT 4.5 team played against the Squashbusters team from North Eastern University. It was a great evening at our home courts. Our team was pretty complete with Jan, Frans, Christopher and Najib. This time around, finally all except for Christopher won. It was a great night and lots of fun. I did not play a team game but I enjoyed good squash (1:4) with Mike (not sure what his surname is) and then 2 games (2:0) with Wes (the number 4 player from Squashbusters) and finally 2 nice sets (1:1) with Chris (the number 1 player from the Squashbusters).  I am starting to let the ball longer in the game to wait for the point rather than pushing too hard to make the point with a risky shot…. let’s see whether I can continue in this direction.