Everyone who has just entered college will be interested in many things in college, such as clubs.

There are various forms and types of student clubs in the school, and the membership fee for joining the club is a flat 10 yuan, and usually most of the members of each club are freshmen, because freshmen are easier to be obedient and work harder. In the sophomore year, except for a few who were promoted to the group leader to stay in the club, everyone else basically chose to quit or did not contribute to their work.

Although I have been at this school for more than a year, when I was in the preparatory department, after all, my future was still unknown, so I only stayed away from club activities. Now that I'm a freshman, I usually have nothing to do anyway, so at the instigation of my roommates, I also signed up for the club's recruitment interview, and I applied for the school tennis association.

Since I had just passed the interview with the picket department of the student union not long ago, I was quite confident in myself. The club is no better than the student union, basically everyone does not refuse, saying that it is an interview, but in fact, it is just a senior or senior sister in the club who asks you a few questions casually, and then chats with you a few words, and goes through the motions.

As I expected, the interview was hastily over within a minute, and after filling out the form and paying the money, I rushed to the student street and bought the cheapest tennis racket at the sports store.

Maybe when I first started doing something, my enthusiasm was often very high, and I probably didn't even think that in order to practice tennis, I could insist on getting up at 6 o'clock every morning to play, and I accidentally met the vice principal on the tennis court.

But before I could hold my racket steadily, the annual tennis freshman tournament began.

This year's Freshman Tournament has three major competitions: Men's Doubles, Women's Doubles and Mixed Doubles, and since the players are all freshmen and have only been exposed to tennis for a short time, there is no singles event, but this is already a big challenge for us.

Because I had to form a team freely to sign up, I had to find a partner on my own. There are only four people in our class in the Tennis Association, exactly two men and two women, so the partners of the men's and women's doubles matches naturally have no suspense.

But in the mixed doubles, we had a disagreement. In the end, Da Long chose Xiaomei one step ahead of me, so that I had no other choice but Xiaojing.

First up was the men's and women's doubles.

Before going to the game, Da Long and I dressed ourselves very carefully in the dormitory, in addition to the white T-shirt, I wore Maddie's No. 1 training jersey, Da Long was James's No. 23, plus the team basketball pants borrowed from classmates and the colorful bandana wrapped around the head, I couldn't tell whether I was going to play tennis or streetball.

This dress naturally attracted the attention of everyone in the audience, and I don't know whether the opponent is too vegetable or we are too strong, or the opponent is frightened by the deterrent effect brought by our dress, after a few games, we won very easily, and unexpectedly advanced to the semi-finals.

This can't help but make us a little fluttery.

Unexpectedly, in the semi-finals that followed, we suddenly lost all our form, and lost our serve in front of a not very strong opponent, and then lost in the tie-break.

0:1, in the best-of-three game, we have lost the lead.

Although we then fought hard to win the second set 6-4 and rewrite the score to 1-1, in the most crucial third set, in the face of a 3-0 lead, we still failed to grasp the advantage that we had built up with great difficulty, and the score became 5:6, which means that as long as the opponent won one more game, we would be eliminated.

The pressure was completely on our side, and I felt like my hands were shaking uncontrollably and desperately, and I made a mistake.

"Hey, be serious!" Seeing that the momentum was not right, Da Long hurriedly yelled at me.

I turned my head to look at Da Long, then I took a deep breath, adjusted my breathing, and swung the racket again to knock the ball out, and as soon as the racket touched the ball, I knew it was over. Due to the excessive force of the serve, the ball flew straight out of the bottom line, and the second serve was wrong again!

0:15, the opponent scored directly.

"It's okay, it's okay, just let it be! Don't be nervous!" Da Long couldn't help but come over, patted me on the shoulder and comforted me, also comforting himself.

Then it was Da Long's turn to serve, and the ball flew back and forth in this small court, and my heart also rose to my throat with this little tennis ball. In the blink of an eye, I saw the ball flying towards me, and I hurriedly flew forward to save the ball, but Da Long had the same idea as me. The ball didn't save, and the two of us bumped into each other.

At 0:30, we have no way back.

"Xiaobei! Da Long, don't give up! Come on!" When I heard the sound, I looked back, and it turned out that Xiao Jing and Xiao Mei, who had just finished the women's doubles match, were standing on the sidelines cheering us on.

I lowered my head and tried to calm myself down, but could a miracle really happen?

At 15:30, relying on the opponent's mistake, we struggled to pull back a goal, but the good luck seemed to end there, and the next goal, the opponent did not give us any chance to turn the tables.

After losing this crucial game, the opponent grabbed 7 again with a score of 7:5, and finally eliminated us with a big score of 2:1 and successfully advanced to the finals.

Walking to the net in the middle of the court, we shook hands with the opposing players one by one, and then dragged the rackets back to the spectator seats on the side of the court in a somewhat lonely way.

"Xiaobei! Da Long, don't be discouraged, our mixed doubles match hasn't started yet! Come on!" Seeing our dejected appearance, the two beauties hurriedly cheered on the side.

I hope so, I prayed silently from the bottom of my heart.

When the men's and women's doubles competitions are over, the mixed doubles competition will also begin.

But misfortune befell me again, Xiaojing and I actually met the seeded team of this year's freshman mixed doubles team in the first round.

There is a huge disparity in strength, and the boy opposite is one of the champions of the men's doubles competition that has just ended, and there is no doubt about his strength. But I know that girl, she is my prep classmate, she has joined the school tennis club as early as last year, and it seems that she has become the leader of the team, can she also participate in the freshman tournament? Although I have some doubts, it is obviously to no avail.

Before the fight began, I knew we were dead.

As I had previously judged, we were swept out of the tournament at 0:2.

(2010.9.16 This chapter has been revised)