I had a nice training session yesterday although I was not really on form. I had never fa diu so many balls in one day.

I started off training AT girls to fa quango, and they of course, cheated in their counting. 4 of them counted their outs to have no penalty on them. As for the other 2, after the first successful la, anything that went in during the rally after that increased their requirement. And if they hit out during the rally, they would just add 1. So it was a really really cheap way to finish it, but it did not benefit them afterwards.

Jia Lu turned up and I offered to play a match with him after he had not come for 3 weeks. He declined at first, but 5 minutes later asked me back for the same thing. So we played a nice Left-Hander match that went 1 - 0, 2 - 0, 2 - 1 and then I won it 3 - 1. He asked for a rematch after a 2 minute water break, and this time he won the first set, but again I came back with a 3 - 1.

Next, we were both made to play a full round of Doubles with Daryl and Darren. We were to partner each other only in the final match. I took Daryl first and we started losing to the Lefty pair because Jia Lu's smashes are really fast and the balls go in awkward directions, so we couldn't catch them. Losing 2 - 0, Daryl started to make miracles happen when Jia Lu failed to return his service continuously after that. We won 3 sets in a row. It was Darren and I next, my turn to be with a left hander. This time, we led the match 2 - 0, but Daryl again did some things that let them catch up to 2 - 2, but we had to win the final set 11 - 8. In the last game, I wasted many services, more than that in the previous 2 matches, which costed us 1 set. We won 3 - 1 in a close 11 - 9 for the final set.

I was asked to play against 3 of the 6 AT girls after that. So, having not trained properly earlier, I beat all of them 3 - 0, which marked the end of my training session.