Milestone Assignment: How Tennis Changed My Life

Milestone Assignment It's that feeling when you get to that ball that you never felt was possible or when you beat the girl that you thought you could never beat. It's those moments that make the long terrible hours worth it. It makes the hot sun, or freezing winter a little bit more bearable. There's a certain feeling that you get when you walk onto a court and you know that you feel good and on top of the world, you only get it a couple times in your life but when you feel that way, there is nothing or no one that can make you feel better. There's only one person that can make you feel this way and that same person is the judge to how often you feel that way too. Everyday, I get on that court and I have to, I need to, try my hardest
My mother started playing it at 13 because she has bronchitis and could no longer swim at the level that she hoped too. So, she dedicated herself to playing tennis and eventually became top 200 in the world. My father on the other hand started playing at around the same age but he never became as good as her. In fact, when they met is when my father improved drastically because he had my mother as a coach. After he started to win is when he became a major tennis fanatic and when I say major, I mean wake everyone up at 2 in the morning to watch tennis matches. So when my parents got married and had their first kid and then three years later, they had me. Naturally, they tried to get my brother to start playing tennis at a very young age but he just wasn't feeling it and as much as it hurt my dad, they just kept putting him into different sports. But then he turned 7 and my father took him with this lady that was teaching at the courts he was playing at and that was the start of my brothers career. Since my big brother started playing then its just normal that I did too. At age four I picked up my racquet and little did I know how much that racquet would change my life. I don't really remember much of my early tennis days so I'm going to fast forward three years. By the time I was seven I was ready to start playing tennis tournaments but my coach, Ms. Janan, wouldn't let me until I got
I started doing good in 12s but not as good as I wanted to and was expected. Thomas became my full time coach and I actually became really fond of him. We went to a lot of different camps that I would get invited too and was getting better. Around this time, a girl that had just started playing tennis started to come to practice and I knew who she was because I played her and my dad told me that her dad was a doctor he worked with. I tried to be nice with her but I didn't really become friends with her and she became closer to another girl named Laura. I was still friends with them and would walk with them but it was more their friendship then me with them. We all ended up traveling together with Thomas to different tournaments and that was always really fun, and that was around the time that tennis really became my life. I started realizing how many times I would say "can't. have tennis" and it didn't really bother me much, at first. My friends understood when I couldn't spend the night because i had tennis early the next day or when I couldn't do anything on weekdays and most weekends but that was tennis and that was