Maybe you could join him Andrew

Hey, well at least I win a couple of our matches. Mark gets thrashed every single time by the sounds of things.

Thanks, I appreciate that

I won't deny Tom is a better player than me but I have had many opportunities to take the lead in some of our matches and yet fail to do so, once I get that fixed I should have a much better chance.

Good thing is I finally got to use my overarm serve as my arm has almost healed. Got a few free points on it which is impressive for me.

I'm happy today as I won the first set against Tom since forever!

However I lost 6-4 1-6 2-6 1-6 (not sure about the score) in a 3 hour a match.

Tom also was upset because I did some gamesmanship - he won a point to have match point but he wasn't sure if it went over the net or through some hole so I pretended not to know and replayed the point but I then regretted it after noticing that Tom took it seriously and therefore I offered several times to go back to the original point after I won the game.

Anyway, I feel good and had a fun game

And another man's cheating is Brad Gilbert's winning ugly.

But seriously, if I had known you would get personally upset over it then I would have conceded the point but I had no idea until then that you took our games as seriously as I do. And therefore you have my apologies and I promise never to pretend to not know about a shot.

You won't need to be disappointed again - gamesmanship is not my thing but I unfortunately stooped to that level in desperation and next time I'll make sure I just win the point properly.

Nope and also no excuses for the loss.

I feel today was a breakthrough as I finally won the first set. Unfortunately because I choked constantly on set point, after I finally won the set it felt like I had won the match and therefore I let my guard down the second set. After that the momentum was lost to Tom

So I've learnt a big lesson which is great.