So frustrating getting to the end of the games when the lights automatically go out. Especially when it's close game. It gets registered as a draw and it's not very satisfying

Doublefault a journey to the Pan Pacific Masters games 2024

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

Hi and welcome to Double Fault. My name is Andrew and I'm on a journey to compete at the Pan Pacific Masters Games in November of 2024. That's 466 days away. Now that time is ticking away so quickly, I cannot believe it. I've had a two week break from publishing any podcasts because there's always a break during the school holidays for competition, for group classes, for a lot of things. So I haven't really had much to say. I haven't been lax, though. I have actually been out there practicing my serves. I've been hitting the balls against the walls. I've got a couple of hitting partners I've been playing with and I've been working on getting back into running. And finally, I can say that my injured Achilles is well, it's like at 95%. I can now run a couple of kilometers without any pain. I can do a 6 or 7 kilometer bush walk without any problems. So I can I can honestly say that I think in another month or two it will be back to normal and I'll be able to go out for a decent amount of running and do some more fitness exercises in the way of short sprints and the like to try and get my fitness up to a point where I'll be able to keep up with some of my younger competitors in the matches that I play now. The first the first match of the new semester is coming up. I'll be playing against a woman who I have played before.

Doublefault a journey to the Pan Pacific Masters games 2024