Good morning. Today think about staying in the moment and stay away from being outcome oriented. As your last few matches are played, the tendency is to think too much about what a win or a loss does to your season. ShIfting your focus to the outcome, can create too much emotion and takes away from your execution. Get your partner on board by using only language that focuses on what’s important now like first serves in, making your returns, and using your strengths. Remember, one of the best sayings to stay in the moment is let’s get this point right here. Good luck
Tigger’s Tips
Posted: 27th October 2011 by Aleece in TCDTags: lakes, legends, tcd, tennis, tiger, tips
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Carillo LB Focus 2!
Posted: 20th October 2011 by Aleece in TCDTags: carillo, lakes, legends, tcd, tennis
Hello ladies is this really Texas and TCD? Could you even believe how beautiful the weather was today? NO wind, temperate temps, NO clouds… incredible! Ok so we were at LB Houston and those courts come sans water and very few creature comforts! BUT OMG the weather…
Thank you LB Focus for 2 points! Before we even hit a ball we got 2 points… the only points but still points! Note to Clara you don’t get the win or the points if you get called in and play, those 2 points now are Melissa’s! Hope your boy is feeling better. “Freakin’ Kids!” see StaCey!
Line 1; Coleen and Melissa? StaCey?Amy S? 2 points for Coleen for sure she wore the Legendwear today in FULL support. No errors, no faults, no calories burned…. just saying…
Line 2/1: Sharon and Amy T. Seriously you two win nice and nicer! I know because your opponent told me so! They found Amy’s twohand forehand impressive. I heard that too! Hey you were not double bageled so enjoy! See Clara and Aleece T-bar for that! We are glad Sharon’s calf is better, though I think she was hoping Amy S would have come to watch and bring her massage kit with her! I think we all want that! Note to StaCey, Sharon confessed that she recently got out her regular bras–the non-sport variety and now believes that StaCey may in fact be a FULL C as her bras no longer seem to fit as she is now perhaps a B. Seriously you must be joking, because if that is what a B is the A’s on the team–Amy, Amy, and Aleece must be non A’s!!!
Line 3/2: Clara and Aleece. Ok so pre match Robin decides she is OVER dressed so she UNDRESSES on the court! New T-shirt to replace the long sleeve shirt and off with the pants and on with the skirt. biker shorts and sports bra….! Very Legendlike! (not StaCey or Clara but EVERYONE ELSE!) Well there were no points gleaned but there were MANY great points! AND there were 1091 calories burned! Clara held it all together even after Aleece dropped her racket when Clara hit the net on her follow through on a winner overhead! AND when a let call came when Aleece and Clara had just got the advantage on game point! Note to opponents, Robin took a HUGE overhead on the calf and will be wearing quite the bruise–look out on overheads to Aleece! Note to Aleece paybacks are a B*!@# We were close which ‘really pisses’ Clara off and perhaps Aleece too but it was SOLID tennis. Note to Melissa, Aleece thought she was playing with you so she wore PINK shorts and a PINK visor to match and then it did not with Clara. See Terri for matching!
Line 4/3 Liz and Terri: Is it just me or could anyone/everyone else hear the grunting and hitting from that court! It was a tad difficult to stay focused with all that NOISE!!! Liz I still love the purple shoes, even if they don’t really GO with the PINK. They STILL work! Terri the PINK shorts are great the PINK bra priceless. Note to StaCey, it is HOT PINK NOT FAG PINK and it is NOT a C or a D… just saying. Terri brought her new WHITE court shoes and boy did she need them. She hauled her booty from one end of the court to the other. I’m thinking over 1091 calories for Terri, Liz… got to say, not so much unless grunting burns ALOT of calories. In that case HUGE calorie burn! Way to fight back after being down 5-2 in the second set to take it to a tie break. Shoulda woulda coulda is our newest tag line. Or is it:
LEGENDS ROCK lunch
LEGENDS ROCK next season
LEGENDS ROCK if only in their own minds
Love this team! Drill is with Paints next week. Let’s hope we all pick up something from it to use in the matches! Like a forehand or a backhand or volley? just saying….
Carillo
Good morning. Pay attention to the different ways you can gain momentum today. 1. Winning three points in a row. 2. When your opponents get upset or seem distracted. 3. When your opponents fail to capitalize on an opportunity. 4. The beginning of the second set regardless of who wins the first. 5. When you and your partner are geling. Stop their momentum by taking more time in between points, and playing high percentage tennis. Good luck
Just another Thursday… AKA bend over ladies! OMG at least it was a beautiful day! Amy T and Aleece first out on the courts today. While waiting for the dust from the 9:30 matches to settle a finely attired matchy matchy woman approached them to inquire if they were a team from the Lakes. A proud “yes” was their reply to which she said, “oh great we must be your opponents. Are you the 15A team?” I am not lying!!! I thought I would LOL but held it in enough to say oh, I’m sorry we’re the Open A team I believe you must be on the other courts! Hahaah! I told her where to go to check which courts she would be playing on! I told y’all we were the best 15A team in Open A! Funnier was Amy questioning how much difference there was between the Open A level and 15A. When I described how much separation there was she was mortified!!! BUT she was right, we should have lied and played them! Maybe we would have won 8-1 instead of losing 1-8! Just saying….
Line 2: Aleece and Clara. Painful as it is to lose 0-0 it was worse to be the first ones off of the court! The only goal we met was to have earned at least 1 point per game!!! There is our good news! The bad news is that was all we won in several games! I have seen enough angle volleys, smoking forehands and backhands and overheads to last at least 2 seasons! More good news, Aleece did NOT self implode and Clara could still smile with Aleece at the end! Miracles do still happen! All I will say is if you are winning 0-0 and an opponents serves an ACE that would allow them 1 game rather than a bagel is not the time to THINK about a call before saying, “Uh, no that is out!” just saying… And apparently Angela did not have enough to do on her court vs Amy and StaCey, after Aleece hit her one and only down the line winner off a Kayla serve Angela scolded Kayla with “you could have got that!” I think under her breath Kayla muttered, “Why bother I’ll just get the next point!” or perhaps, “I don’t do run and I’ll win anyway!”
Line 1: StaCey and Amy S. I think StaCey had it right, “we were up 2-1 in the first set, we should have faked an injury and lost while still ahead!” There is logic to that reasoning… StaCey had our uniforms down with just enough accent pink to make everyone save Melissa and Terri to make us jealous. Note Terri’s PINK bra was bright, StaCey’s not so much. Perhaps a new ‘C’ is in order for Stacey. Or a new bra… Hmmm StaCey but really StaDey. See Sharon N for the C’s and the sparkily/lacey bra, thanks for sharing. Wonder does Sharon play in a bra like that? Tennis, play tennis in a bra like that! And yes StaCey your Legends Rock was more like Legends ROCK . Amy the ladies on our court wanted your legs but I pointed out to have them they would need to run more than one marathon AND at an 8 something pace! OMG!! See Kayla for not running… Nice playing you two! Don’t think we’ve forgotten our former resident DD girl, Krissy. I believe Amy called StaCey Krissy once or twice today but without the Hon or sweetie. Looks can be deceiving, but StaCey never sounds like Krissy.
Line 3: Coleen and Amy T. Well Amy sorry you are not going to get smiling opponents! And yes it is because they are bored and can hardly enjoy this nice weather because we are just not competitive enough for them. Oh well…. Yes your scores were closer but it’s never good when you’ve just lost to someone and then they tell you “oh, btw I fell yesterday and wasn’t sure I could even play today. I did not know if I could hit a backhand!” But she did and apparently more than one! Still you were the second to last on the court so no doubt burned more than the 605 calories Aleece burned. Much more than the 250 that StaCey burned! Note to StaCey, get a new watch that works!!!
Line 4: Melissa and Liz. Melissa we love your pink ruffle skirt! StaCey has ruffle envy but as we all noted our butt would NOT look like your butt so we are NOT going with PINK RUFFLES! Wise choice Liz to avoid this! Although we think you should have worn the now infamous Legends ROCK or in all cases except StaCey Rock! You guys had a great match, way to fight in that 3rd set. 1 POINT!!!! Someone should post on FB how great revenge is… or maybe just not losing 0-8. (do not ask Aleece and Clara about this) We really thought you two had them when you climbed back after being down in the 3rd. Still we are happy to accept any points!
Terri thanks for the champagne. Note to Janet, we ALWAYS have champagne to celebrate our good fortune to be able to be out in weather like this doing something we love with people who bring joy into our lives! And after explaining how she was able to defeat Coleen and Amy T with her injury, she consoled us all with, “at least you only have to spend 1 season in Open A…” OUCH!!!! I mean this team can throw some serious smack and not even try!! Sharon we are glad you came to watch us too. I think that you mostly came to have Amy S massage your leg. Next practice watch out Amy I think I foresee a glutal injury in my future… you do do glutes don’t you? I won’t for get the lotion, sunscreen, or other…
I think from now on we should all simply take turns playing against Paints, or Oscar, or David, or Dusty… then we will be prepared for what we will be up against. Enough of just playing against the likes of Legends!! We aren’t good enough practice for what we have to play against!!! But hey none of that matters because we really do get to celebrate what it is to just enjoy the pleasure of the weather, playing and each other! Truly Legendary!
Carillo
Tigger’s Tips
Posted: 13th October 2011 by Aleece in TCDTags: lakes, legends, tcd, tennis, tiger, tips
Good morning. Think about your strengths and weaknesses today. Position yourself off the serve and return to hit your strength. Try to hide your weakness with your court positioning and hit your weaker shots with the purpose of getting it to your strength as soon as you can. Good luck
Another beautiful Thursday for TCD? How is that possible? How many years have we played and how many great weather days have we had? Well if we can’t get many points at least the weather makes it nice to play! Thank you Terri for the new tanks! We like the bling anywhere but below the breastage! Especially if we are Stacey! Just saying…. Yes changing shirts on the court seems to be our new MO, not Stacey or at least she went to the corner of the court and turned her back. But if we had what she does maybe we would too… :-0 Maybe not see Melissa….
Line 1: the C team of Coleen and Clara. Thank you captain C for stepping up and in for Liz. Love that no matter what line anyone looked at we all looked swell in our ‘Legends Rock’ bling shirts! There was a lot of wham bam on your court mostly by Rachel(all 27 years of her) but way to hang in there! No evil eye on your court! See Stacey for that!
Line 2: Amy S and Sharon. As Sharon said, ‘another lesson!’ As Amy said at least we made our goal of not a double bagel! Attributing it mostly due to a lack of concentration on their opponents part but IT COUNTS! See, you HAVE to actually play even if you are that good. BTW Julie played for Purdue. Yes she is a strong player! See the C team for another strong player.
Line 4: Aleece and Terri. Well today Tigger was not quite so bouncy. Note to T, speak plain English! “I’m feeling a lack of energy” is not the same as “Hey Aleece do you have any snacks? I need to eat something.” Note to Aleece, if you want an energetic Terri, learn Terrispeak! Plenty of good points but not enough to win. 909 calories burned if you were Aleece, not so much if you were (my heart rate was never above 140 and I barely broke a sweat Missy). But hey it made that Smashburger really great! Early on there was one point that Missy THOUGHT she had lobbed OVER Terri, NOT!!! Terri did one of those amazing scissor kick overheads and Missy let out some squeal of amazement! Too bad Aleece did not understand Terrispeak… just saying! BTW they were a strong team too!
Line 3: Melissa and Stacey. First of all Stacey went all rogue wearing her PINK Tback sport bra rather than the official BLACK bra. But Stacey was not the only rogue one, Melissa wore a PINK skirt!!! That is NOT the official Legends Rock uni!!! However if we also note that the two rogue girls are the ONLY two who garnered any points perhaps we all need to rethink our styles… go a bit pink, bra, hat, skirt… any other ideas? C’mon Legends? We all want to know how such a slight of frame person can hit such a cannon of a forehand? Seriously Melissa!!!! Got to love Terri who simply calls it like she sees it. Stacey, Evil Eye Teal wasn’t mad at you for being mean… she simply didn’t like you because you were winning. Not the better player, but all the help from the tape! All I know is you were better TODAY! 2 points better!—Even though they were a very strong team! Today was your day!
Thanks to Amy T for coming out in her Legendwear to support us. Sorry you missed lunch and Champagne!! Yes as in Legendary style we had champagne, mostly it was for Liz who was not even there. So instead we celebrated 2 POINTS! and for 27 years of marriage for Aleece! Note to all 27 years is the AGE of the hot shot on line 1. I think Aleece felt OFFICIALLY old with that knowledge! Lunch was a highlight today, as it has been for 4 of 5 weeks. The only week it wasn’t we took 4 points… Hmmm there is something wrong with that. As for the Champagne, thank you to…??? We all thank Coleen for the cake and cookies! They really were tasty! Note to Muffie and Nancy if you read this, we have had Champagne at our home matches but we have not managed to drink quite as much as we did with y’all. And no belinis! I think we need to coordinate our efforts and bring more than one bottle for the 8-10 of us! But we did have the chocolate sweets, although we are not more than cupcake divas! Stacey we really do not need to see a line up of ALL your old bras. I mean why do you even still have them, you admit they are not needed… And who can forget that our Amy S used cup size or lackthereof to describe a player rather than oh say skirt, or top or..shoes??? Sharon you have turned that corner also by noting aloud that even you noted that same player with the same description. So much fun today just being a Legend if only in our own minds! Next week it’s T-bar again. We will hope for better than 0-8, perhaps we might even celebrate it on Facebook! And no, knowing that they were supporting their coach with that post did NOT make us feel better. POINTS will help!
As always,
Carillo
Good morning. Today you should focus on your partner and how you can complement each others style? Discuss whether you need your partner to set you up strategically with you being the aggressor or vice versa. Or whether your partner will play similar to your style and how that should work. Emotionally make sure you are prepared to keep your partner pumped if needed or discuss certain things that help you emotionally as a team if you get down. Communicate during points and in between points. Good luck
99 degrees and sunny on a Thursday? Yes it is and what a beautiful day to play, even if you have to play the number 1 team in the whole stinkin’ TCD league! Way to go Legends!
Way to start the day with our new Legends attire! “Legends Rock” with bling and oh yeah more bling! Be it tank or T it is fun! Note to everyone Stacey is not as big as we keep thinking she is! She should have got the Medium!!! Note to all that means Aleece needs a small! And note to Tony the Legends Rock needs to be above the breastises. Just saying… Final note is we have now achieved our goal to be the best 15A looking team in the Open A world. But on that note did everyone notice that T-Bar Open A wore matching blue??? I mean everyone had the SAME blue as a skirt or top or both! Still we had them beat even if we did change our shirts on the court, or at least Amy and Aleece did. See Stacey and Clara for modesty and as well they should.
Line 1: Coleen and Sharon. Sharon was not sure if there match was longer than their warm up but she did get the utmost compliment, they did Aussie on her because she was killing her cross court forehands then to her credit (and happy surprise) she smoked her down the line forehand! Yay Sharon! Thank you ladies for graciously playing line 1. I have just one question, do you do red gatoraide? And why call out the score…ever… let’s just assume they are winning… I mean when you KNOW you will win why bother?… I guess…
Line 2: AmyX2. I think the loudest noise happened on your court when Lori smacked Donna in the back of the head with her forehand swing volley! OUCH! You had some nice points, just that their points were nicer. See all lines on that detail! Consider it a small victory to have lasted longer than the warm up. I know I do. Nice playing.
Line 4: Stacey and Clara. You guys had some great points. I thought you had them in that second set. Stacey was banging her overheads for winners and Clara was smokin’ her forehand. Lots of deuce games. Note to all winning deuce games helps! Great effort ladies.
Line 3: Aleece and Terri. Goal # 1 last longer than warm-up, Check. Goal #2 play well, check. Goal #3 be on the court the longest, check.(note to all that is not normally the goal but at this level it seems fitting) Goal # 4 earn points, not so much! Goal #5 look good, check. (thanks to Terri’s new Legends attire!) Nothing says a loss more than a slice backhand off a dead run to the baseline off a great forcing shot for a clean angle winner! See Kayla Blackburn for that! And hats off to Terri for knowing the score, announcing the score and proving it to Jill who ‘remembers all her missed shots’ NOT!
We are not off to a winning start or season but I think we all agree that it is a legendary one! Love this group of women! See you all next week at home vs LB Houston Focus!
Carillo
Focus on a higher energy level today. Up on your toes when waiting for the next point, energy in your walk, and excitement for playing the match. Rate yourself at the end of the match focusing on when your energy level dropped or when you stopped thinking about it. Good luck
When TCD started 3 weeks ago we were living with record breaking highs and seemingly no end in sight. Today we saw the beginning of the end. No doubt we will again see some steamy temperatures but today was not such a day. Windy and cool today with tennis stopping rain. Well better said rain delayed tennis. Just like in NY we halted play for a rush of rain that got the courts sopping wet, so wet that we finished at LoneStar High! But finish we did or shall I say we were finished off by the Roadies?
Line 2 the infamous C team: Clara and Coleen. Off to a great start batting it out and keeping up right until they weren’t. Funny thing at this level, once they see what you like they deliver to you what you do not! Clara is ready for the new Legend look. Terri has told us that we can expect it next week. Great, just in time for T-bar the team that beat this team 6-2. At least we will look great! There were many great points but unfortunately they had more of them than we did. Not easy to beat let alone hang with one of the top Dallas 4.5 (newly rated 5.0) doubles duos. See everyone else except line 1 on that too! (Line 1 was a 5.0+ line)
Line 4 the Amy team: Amy S and Amy T. I would hear great shot Amy and wonder which Amy and think how nice you could both enjoy each other’s great shot! (I mean more than usual since it sounded like you hit it rather than simply stood there) Your duo just won 4.5 Seniors and is heading to Nationals so no worries that they too won more of the ‘good point’ points! Amy, nice black dress and Amy, nice customary black skirt with white top! You both looked great today and yet we will look REALLY awesome once the new dress code can be enforced!
Line 1: Liz and Melissa. There was I hit big, I hit bigger, I hit biggest and Y’all can go home with what I own! Melissa as promised did NOT wear the code black and white. Not as neon as she was at SMU, just a lot of color even on someone as lean as Melissa! Liz was traditional even if it was her birthday! Sorry, b-day or not there were no points for you! But there was champagne compliments of Melissa! And no she came with champagne even though she did not know it was Liz’s b-day just a happy coincidence! Or in her words ‘someone’s got to bring some alcohol!’ Sorry about your backhand, as good as it was LAST week it was not to be found today. Just who was that Dena chick and why was she so fit?
Line 3: Terri and Aleece. Terri was all classic and Aleece went purple, she was thinking like Stacey, still sporting purple the color trend for the season. Oh to finally get the matching shirts so we can complete the 15A look, why stop with scores? It was worth the drive to LoneStar but only barely and just for the calorie burn. It was not worth the whiffed high volley see Aleece for that! Note to anyone who plays with Terri bring an extra bottle of water, she relies on the on court beverages and at LoneStar there is none, like at SMU and LB Houston.
We hope that Sharon and Stacey’s girls are doing better. Please let us know that they are doing ok. We know how stressful having sick kids is especially if the hubby is traveling and there is a hospital visit involved. We missed you two today! BTW lunch was enjoyable for Clara, Amy T, Terri, and Aleece. We had some great ideas for drilling or not… look for an email from our leaders to follow.
Well ladies, I believe we have been schooled again and have more knowledge coming at us. Next week is Tbar and as I mentioned before they schooled these ladies. So if Tbar is D1 university, Roadies are community college surely we can be high school tennis…. ?? If nothing else we are Legends if only in our own minds!
Carillo