A close game but the lights went out at the end because we ran out of time. A draw but I think I was on the losing side of the fence


Hi and welcome to Double Fault. My name is Andrew and I'm on a journey to compete in the Pan Pacific Masters Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland in November 2024. And this is my journey, I guess. So those games are now 456 days away, which is still a bit of time to go, but I'm finding that my level of improvement in playing tennis is slowed down a little bit, I think. I don't think I'm plateauing. I just think I'm maybe I'm consolidating my skills a little bit. I read somewhere that when you learn a new skill, be it golf or tennis or any other skill, you tend to go up in like a saw pattern. You know, there's a climb where you gain some skills and then you stop gaining skills for a while. I think internally you consolidate a bit and then, you know, you can even go down a little bit in your ability to do whatever sport you're doing. But then after a while it starts climbing again, like as if the consolidation phase is over and it's time to learn something new. I think internally that's kind of the way it works and it seems to be the way it works for me. So I think I'm actually over that phase and I think I'm actually starting to improve again. I watched an episode of Break Point this week and I think it was the one with Berrettini in it, and that's If You Don't Know, it's a documentary on the journey of some of these tennis players who don't quite make it to a slam.

Doublefault a journey to the Pan Pacific Masters games 2024