The Lasers arrived in Washington on Saturday with a huge task at hand. They where up against the Kastle in the finals of the World Team Tennis Championship. The Kastle's would have home court advantage and we knew there would be 3 000 screaming supporters.
On Saturday night the 2 teams had a welcome function where we introduce our teams to the media and Billie Jean King.
Like in every match we played this season I knew if we can get 6-8 games from the 2 men's events we had a shot. Liezel and Vania was the leading doubles team in the competition and Vania the leading singles player. We started with men's singles and Raven lost 5-3. Mixed doubles was 2 nd and we lost 5-4. The men lost 5-4 in doubles and before the women's event we where down by 4 games. Liezel and Vania went down 3-1 but turned things around and won the event 5-3. We where only down by 2 games with Vania to play. We where very confident because Vania was playing well and Olga Putchova had her fare share of problems this season. Vania started of shaky but pulled herself together and with her leading 4-2 we where on the brink of becoming the new WTT Champions when Vania had 3 match points. She was unfortunately unable to convert and ended up loosing 5-4. This gave the Kastles the Championship.
It was very frustrating that we came so close. Vania gave her best and she is the one that got us into the finals. Sport can be very cruel sometimes, but it makes us all stronger.
This was the best WTT season I had. We went 12-2 in the regular season, made the finals and we where involve in 3 super tiebreakers, great excitement. Thank you very much to John, Harry, Bob, Tom and Judie who is the people that makes everything work at the Lasers. You guys are great people. THANK YOU.
I fly back to SA tonight and can't wait.
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