Tonight Bethany tennis met their toughest opponent of the year, the Westview Warriors. Matt had told the boys that it would be a challenging match and to just go out, play well and learn from the experience. Cam took him at his word and did just that. He played the #1 JV singles spot tonight and from the first point we knew that it would be an intense match. Cam's opponent hit the ball hard, rarely missed points and was good at the net. I was extremely impressed with how well Cam handled the situation. He served well with only one double fault on the night. He rallied, hit several winners and returned some unbelievable shots. He also served a fifteen minute deuce game trying to even the score at 5-5. It wasn't quite meant to be tonight as he ended up losing the set 4-8. When it was over we looked around and realized that his court had outlasted all of the varsity two set matches but one. In the end only one court would win tonight and that was JV #1 doubles.
As we drove home, Cameron told me that he was really happy with how he played this evening and that his next focus would be to work on passing shots. He then casually remarked that Westview's #2 and #3 singles were both out with COVID. It didn't really sink in at first as to what he said, but as he repeated it I finally realized what that meant. He wasn't actually playing Westview's #1 JV singles, but instead their #3. Wow! I couldn't even imagine what it would have been like if they had had a full roster. Either way I was proud of how well he performed tonight.
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