It was a tough day: the girls went 0-3, and what’s worse, they were all straight-set defeats. I know it had to be frustrating: of the three teams they played, only one should have been truly hard to defeat. The other two teams, our girls essentially beat themselves. They would get a lead, then give it right back. Once they gave the lead back, the teams would just trade points until the end, something that, if it had happened when our girls had the lead, would have resulted in wins.

All that to say, only one team blew them out of the water; the other teams just barely beat them in each set — nearly as close as possible. Of those four sets, they lost three of them 22-25 and the fourth one 23-25. In each of those four sets, they had the lead at some point. In one set they had a five-point lead; in another set, they had an eight-point lead. That had to be frustrating for them.

After a few hours’ break and a nap for L, we met up with most of the other team families for a team dinner.