Recap: Houston Futures, iTennis Men's open, 1st Kuwait Futures
After the SoCal swing I had a week of training before heading off to Houston to play a $25K Futures. The Houston tournament is held at the University of Rice and they have a great facility with over 20 outdoor courts. The weather was very hot and humid during that week. Based off my ranking I was close to getting in directly to the main draw but I just missed out. I ended up being the #3 seed in Qualifying and played my first match on Saturday. I played my first round match against Jacob Eskeland from Norway. He is a sophomore at Rice University so he was playing on his home courts. He was an aggressive baseliner who liked his forehand from the middle of the court. He had a good serve and he also returned pretty well. He broke me in the fourth game to go up a break 3-1 in the 1 st set. I had two break point chances to get it back on serve but he ended up holding for 4-1. We both held in our next service game and I found myself down 2-5. I saved two break points (