I didnt really get obsessed with the sport till about ten years ago in my early forties. Since I moved to the US after college, I stopped playing cricket and started playing tennis more often. Playing and captaining a team sport like cricket taught me a lot of team-player and leadership skills that have helped me achieve success in my corporate career that I think playing an individual sport like tennis would not have. My feeling is that if I had played tennis more than cricket as a kid, my ceiling might have been college tennis also and I have no regrets. I ended up as a college cricket player and wasn't good enough to progress further. In my case, I played cricket the most as a kid, but I also played tennis, badminton, field hockey, football and ran track. I think that the ceiling of your athletic talent doesn’t vary that much when you play different sports and you will probably excel at the sport you played the most as a kid.
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Of course I probably wouldn't have become a pro anyway, but it still sucks knowing I could have achieved so much more in my tennis abilities/career, had I dedicated myself to tennis like I do now.Īnyway else relate to this? How do you personally cope? lol
I'm no where near pro level obviously, and have no chances of doing so at my age now, but now I look back in time and have those "what if" thoughts if I took tennis more seriously. Now that I'm in my 30s I play more tennis than I ever have before, and am undoubtedly better than I was during my teenage years. I've had breaks from playing - even years of breaks- due to varying jobs/other responsibilities. I was more interested in playing video games in my spare time rather than practicing my ground strokes or fitness or playing matches. I've always had decent strokes and athleticism, but I never took tennis as seriously back then as I do now. I'm 30 now, almost 31, and started playing tennis in high school. I guess this a "vent" thread, but I want to see if anyone feels the same way I feel.