Tennis IITT tournament in Ethiopia 2012

This year, since I was in the school's varsity tennis team, I got picked to go with seven other players of our team to Addis Ababa for the International Invitational Tennis Tournament in Ethiopia's International school: ICS (international community school). We travelled there for 5days, and we played three days total. In the competition there was our school, ISK, ICS red and ICS white, the greek school of Addis and the Pilot club of Addis, so five teams in total. I was playing at the seed 3, just like last year, so some of the people I was playing I already knew.

I already went last year so I kind of knew how it was going to be and even some of the other players from the other school. The only difference is that last year I wasn't very prepared for it, but this year I think I have made a lot of improvement, and I could see that through the results of the games. 

 I was hosted with a really good friend and really good player, Cheryl. The first day we were all, well especially me, sort of nervous for the games, but it actually turned out pretty well for all of us ( us the girls, because the girls were separated from the boys this year so we didn't really spend much time with them). But after the first games, we saw that it was really fun and we enjoyed it as much as we could.

We, overall as a team came third out of five, but as the girls, we came first and I honestly think we killed it, we won every single game except for me, I lost one tiebreak and was really disappointed, but even so, ISK girls came first easily but at least 60 points. We also as a team got a trophy for sportsmanship. 

As individuals, we all got medals. I got first place for my category which was awesome, and for doubles, my partner Shivy and I came third overall and we were really proud of ourselves because we had to play our own girl double team from ISK and did the best we could, even though we were laughing all the time. 

The tournament was really really fun and I enjoyed it a lot more than last year, we laughed and played as best as we could. I learned that the score doesn't matter, but how much fun you had during the game mattered the most. I also think that I have improved since last year and I really hope that I will be coming back next year and play even better.