I am on an emtional rollercoaster…

Sorry for not blogging last night!!!  Yesterday was a difficult day for me.  I had two games yesterday.  My first game was against my fellow Canadian teammate Adam Dukovich…I played awesome…it was a tight game as usual!  We went into OT and I wasn’t able to pull out the win.  Congrats to Adam though!!!  It was an awesome game!  Final score was 3-3 but Adam won the tie break.  My second game was against Fiona Lyons from Australia.  It was a heartbreaker for me because I should’ve had won it.  It wasn’t a good game for me at all.  I missed a few key shots in the 2nd end and gave up 5 points.  Then I lost my Jack in 4th end as it didn’t crossed the V line.  Final score was 6-2.  I was not a happy camper after that one.  However, I needed to find a way to get into a better mindset for today and put that game behind me!

Yesterday made me so determined to bounced back and show the world what I am made of!  The Tiger came right out of its cage today let me tell ya!!!!!!!!!!  I knew going into today that I needed to win both games in order for me to have any hope of moving into the top 32.  Everyone supported and encouraged me before my 1st game which was at 9am.  I also received messages from home that also helped me get into the right mindset…keep cheering because it really helps me   Our Head Coach Mario went into the Call Room with me and give me a pep talk which I needed.  I was ready to fight!!!!!!!!!!  My first game was against Jakob from Czech Republic.  I took my time and took one ball at a time!!!!  The Tiger roared a few times and got me pumped up!!!!!!  I was so focused – people said that I had scary eyes haha!  I played awesome and came away with a victory!!!!!!  Final score was 4-1.

After that game, I was so ready to fight again!!!!!!!!  I had to wait until 1pm to play again.  My second game was against Roberta Connley from Ireland.  I knew that it was going to be a good game.  But the Tiger was ready to come out again!!!!!!!!  It was an AWESOME game!!!!!!  I was leading 6-0 going into the 3rd end.  Yes a big lead, but you can’t called it a day with a lead like that at this level!!!  Roberta nailed her Jack in the 3rd end, so I decided to blocked it really well which  I succeeded in doing, and I wanted to put one ball right behind the Jack so that if she decided to lob and hit the Jack back, I will have a ball there to take the lobbing option away from her…but my ball went to far behind.  Guess what she did??  You guessed it…lobbed it and hit the Jack back to opened it up for herself.  She had 4 more balls.  And yes she scored all 4.  So it was 6-4 for me going into last end.  I put my Jack about 5 meters on my side (blue).  I didn’t nailed the Jack but was in front.  Anyway, that end we were ball for ball pretty much.  She was scoring one point with me having no more balls yet.  I had a blue ball in front pretty close.  She had one more ball.  Guess what happened????  She managed to squeezed though to score another point…so OT we go!!!!!!  I let her choose for the coin toss to see who would go first, and luckly she won and got to go first…and luckly she didn’t nailed the Jack.  It was ball for ball for a couple of balls until I put a ball in there :-)  I was praying to God after that shot as she still had like 3 balls left.  My ball was in a great spot and made it hard for her to get closer.  I thought she had done it on her last ball, but I went to looked and saw that my ball was scoring and I let out a big roar then all the Canadians roared too haha!!!  I was sooooooo relieved and emtional.  I still had two more balls, so I went back into my box and tried to calm down to throw away them haha!  I am so proud of myself for bouncing back today and winning my 2 games!!!!!!  I played AWESOME!!!!!!  I did my job…now I sit and wait to see if I am moving on into the top 32.  It was a GREAT day!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have tomorrow off.  I will find out tomorrow if I am moving on.  I’ll keep you all updated!  Keep cheering   Missing you all!

Goodnight….

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