Alec Adamson's Tennis Journey

After winning the doubles title the week before I didn’t get much time to adjust to the conditions in Champaign as the doubles final finished Friday at 6PM and I was playing the next day on Saturday. The Champaign Futures was held at the University of Illinois and they have a great setup. They  have one of the top 10 facilities in the country with 20 outdoor courts and 6 indoor courts. At a lot of Futures it can be tough to book practice courts as they are usually limited but in Champaign they didn’t even have a sheet to signup for practice courts since they had so many. I stayed at an AirBNB in Urbana for the week and it was only 10 minutes away from the site. I played my first Rd of Qualifying against Myles Schlaet who just graduated from the University of Michigan. He played #3-4 singles his senior year. He has a big game with a good serve and big forehand and he likes to finish points at the net. It was very windy the first day with winds of 15-20 mph. I...

I have been a little behind on my recaps as I’ve played a lot of tennis in the last few weeks. I finished up playing in Iowa City, Iowa in the $25K Futures over a week ago. The tournament was hosted at the University of Iowa and they have a nice setup with 12 outdoor courts and 6 indoor courts. It was warm and humid in the early part of the week but cooled off a little bit as it rained a few days later in the week. In the 1 st rd of Qualies I played Connor Johnston, who is a junior at the University of Michigan. He was an aggressive base-liner who liked to take the ball early and take time away. He also came to the net a good amount and mixed in the serve & volley. Both of us held in the first two service games until I played a good return game to break him at 2-2. I held and then broke him again before I served out the first set 6-2. I saved a few break points in my first service game before holding and then getting another break. I was serving well and doin...