Things
started out rocky with me not even sure if I would even get to go to the 2012
US Open Grand Prix Gold tournament this year. There was an issue with some
outstanding fees for another Trinidad player and the payment process thankfully
went through and my entry was accepted by the BWF into the tournament. That
would make this my 3rd consecutive US Open. Due to it being the
Olympic year a lot of big names didn’t come, leaving the draw wide open. This
means that for the first time I would not have to qualify and would be in the
main draw.
My first
round was against a player from Mexico, Lino Munoz, and it was a gong show to
put it lightly. I could not win rallies at all. Neither one of us wanted to lift;
whoever lifted more or less lost the rally. Lino is defiantly a level above my
play and I can only hope to train hard and reach that level in the very near
future. Overall not to happy with how things played out, I’m not mad that I
lost its more I’m mad at how I couldn’t win rallies and have a closer match.
It gets
tough when all I do is train hard every day, on court off court all aspects
that I can just to be beaten like that at the US Open. It can be so frustrating,
knowing I’m not fast enough, strong enough, consistent enough, shot quality isn’t
good enough and strategy’s aren’t solid enough. So much left to learn but I
cant forget how far I have come already, these past 6 years since starting have
flown by and I am truly grateful for where I have gotten. I have that urge and
that desire to go even further and push this as far as I can. Every day, in
every way I am getting better and better. Every day I wake up and will work my
hardest no matter what, there is no giving up, no looking back, only forward
and up.
That being
said the 2012 US Open is done for me, I got a decent amount of ranking points
for losing first round so that will add to my ranking in a way. I play in the
2012 Canadian Open Grand Prix Gold next week (July 10-15th) and play
a top Canadian player first round main draw. I look forward to the match which
will take place Wednesday July 11th at the Richmond Olympic Oval at
2:30pm.
I have just
2 more days In Calgary before heading out to Vancouver for the week for the
tournament (Leave Sunday July 8, 2012). After Canadian Open I will be back in Calgary for approximately 17
days and then I will fly out August 1st to Guangzhou, China to train
for a month and a bit at a badminton academy.
Summer has
pretty much come to an end for me as I don’t really have much free time left. I
have taken 4/18 flights for this summer already. All those flights will occur
within a 3 month period, that’s most likely more than most people take in a
year. And the year isn’t done yet still on the agenda will be Pan Am games in Peru
in October. Miami International end of October (This falls on Halloween so that
means that I won’t be partying this year), and Puerto Rico International in
November. As well I may finally take my 1st ever vacation in 4 years
to Cuba with my family, strictly vacation, no badminton at all. I am not sure
on that one though depends on if it works with my school schedule and if I can
take the time off.
So much to
do so little time, so many people to see but schedules don’t align. There are a
handful of people that I really want to see this summer before I head back to China;
hopefully all works out for that to happen. Some I haven’t seen since last year
before I was in china in 2011...
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