Looking forward...

Hi all,

I lost my first round match in Portugal to Yuhan Tan of Belgium. I played very well in the first set and beginning of the second, but unfortunately I couldn't hold on. As of today I'm still not quite sure what went wrong for me which made me feel extremely dissapointed and frustrated just after the match. Now that I've got things on a bit of a distance, I choose to focus on the positive things, like my game in the first set and some parts of both the second and third. In these parts I managed to put everything together and make it work like it did back in august/september where I played so well. Just need to be able to do this throughout a whole match, or at least 2 sets so I have a chance of winning some matches. It's pretty difficult when you only play 1 good set per match :)

Next up for me on the international circuit will be the Finnish Internationl in Helsinki. That's in 3 weeks and I'll have to play in the qualifiers round. Haven't played qualifiers for quite some time in these EBU tournaments, but maybe it's not too bad as it gives me a better chance of getting some matches.
This tournament is not getting much attention in my mind right now though. On wednesday evening I have to play in the first of two league finals here in Denmark. My team, Greve, have been in the final 3 times in the last 4 years, but lost every time. So everyone involved in the club is very eager for us to win it this time and I think we have a good chance of doing so. The league system is a special. A teammatch contains 2 mens singles, 1 ladies singles, 1 mixed, 1 mes doubles and 1 ladies doubles. If the score is tied at 3-3 at the end of the matches one decisive "golden" set is to be played. As the lineups have just been released it could look like my match could be the dicisive factor. I think we are favourites to win the first mens singles (i play second after Kenneth Jonassen), ladies singles and have a slight edge in the mixed. Our opponents look very strong in mens and ladies doubles. My match looks like a 50/50 encounter, so it should be a splendid final as my match is to be played as the last match of the night. There will be a sell-out crowd of 750 people, most of them supporting Greve as we play at home this time. I'm sure it will be very fun and I'm really looking forward to playing. Hopefully the crowd will give me a lot of support and thereby help me to play better again!
Even if we lose on wednesday we still have a chance of winning the league title, but that will require a victory away from home thursday next week. Not impossible, but a very tough task.

We'll see how things get on, I'm positive about it! Sure it will be a night to remember for a long time...

Thanks for reading and your support,

Hans-Kristian