I have been playing tennis since I was about 9 or 10 years old. My grandmother introduced me into it at a summer camp she enrolled me in. I started to enjoy it, so I took lessons throughout the course of the summer. I took a few years off because at the elementary I attended they didn't have tennis, so I eventually stop playing. A few years ago, I was talking to my grandmother about how I wanted to get back into tennis because I heard that Drew had a tennis team. My grandmother ran into a tennis coach, who is my private coach now, while playing pickleball at home court. They then started to arrange schedules and I got to work. Getting back into tennis after a few years was a struggle but, I was getting better and better each day learning new techniques and strategies. When tenth grade year came about I was ready to be on the team. I was really feeling the pressure about being good enough for a team to play actual tournaments with. Within a few minutes, I MADE THE TEAM!!!!!!!! From then, it was a constant and steady grind of work. We played so many schools, the good ones and the terrible ones, that our wins constituted us to go to REGIONALS!!!!!! Being at regionals was an amazing memory, it was also the day of the solar eclipse. After a long day of hard work, we were pronounced 4th in the Region, which mean we were going to the STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS!!!! At state I was highly confident in myself that I could beat whoever I was playing. We went to Rockmart High School to play at State. The girl I was playing with was really good, but her only issue was having consistent serves. My serves 99% of the time are consistent. During the match it started to rain and I was doing well. We were told to finish the first set but I ended up losing by 1 point. Which caused me to lose state because it started to rain. I didn't think it was fair to end the match because it rained. They should have postponed it so we could have finished the match. I was so close to winning. Next tennis season, I am hoping to win state.