Okay, I know my family thinks we're crazy but oh well. Christian has shown a slight interest in tennis on and offer over the last few years. He even did a week long tennis camp in Chattanooga about 3 summers ago. Matthew has attempted to get out and play with him occassionally but that never seems to go well.
Lately, he's brought it up and we've encouraged him that it would be good for him to play an individal sport and encouraged him to give it a try. Well, he decides he wants to play, then spends a few hours hitting a bucket of balls with Matthew and decides it's not fun and doesn't want to do it.
So after that, Matthew and I decided that to get him to try something new, we'd have to MAKE him. For those of you who need the reminder, remember he was the soccer kid that cried and ran off the field when he first started???? And we made him complete that season and look where we are now!!! So we decided to MAKE him attend the local tennis clinic which is for 1 hour on Monday nights. He wasn't thrilled about it but we felt he wasn't truly giving tennis a fair shot. We are not pushing him to play, but this child would never try something new if we didn't make him so we did.
Of course, he did great at the first one, met a friend right away and had fun and wanted to return. He didn't have a choice so at least the next time he'd be going with a different attitude. By the 2nd clinic, he was asked to be on the Middle School Team Tennis program. We decided not but he was asked very specifically again to be on the Ridgetop team so we agreed.
He had 6 weeks of matches on Wednesdays and he played either singles and/or doubles. The season is over now and as of this past Wednesday, his team came in 3rd place in our division which qualifies them for the tournament in a couple of weeks. We're not 100% if we're going to let him go (another story) but either way, we are proud of him and how well he did and how he learned that he can do something and be successful but he just has to try! Here are some pictures of him....
Christian's first match - he didn't have his shirt that first week. Great form on our serve!
Christian waiting on his doubles partner to serve
Ben was his doubles partner - Ben is a great player
Love this picture!!!
Another great serve
Christian's last match was Wednesday and it started late so Matthew was not able to stay for it. They were both disappointed but I really like this picture of them before Matthew left.
He finally got comfortable using his backhand
Intense playing
Following through on his serve
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