Charlie "Nadal" Beck, the New King of Centre Court

The title of this blog may be misleading. I don't think Charlie will be at Wimbledon this year, or probably any other year.

He decided last fall when school started that he was going to go out for tennis this spring. A few of his friends were going to do it, so he joined them. We bought a racquet at Target, and they all met and his the ball around a little bit up at Lakefront Park. Then winter came, and the tennis stopped.

Practice started a few weeks ago. Charlie is on the JV tennis team. Again, not going to Wimbledon anytime soon :)

Here a some pictures from his first Meet? Match? I'm not sure what we call them...

This is probably 1 or 2 hits into the first set. It is Prior Lake vs. Farminton.

He played against someone that was about the same level as he was. I guess the kid was a little bit better since he won, but they had fun playing.

They were very polite to each other and demonstrated good sportsmanship.

Lots of "nice shot" or "great serve" through our the 2 sets.

Here they are shaking hands at the end.

Last week they had more Meets (we'll call them Meets).

The JV played Minnetonka at home, on the PLHS courts this time. The Varsity team went to Minnetonka, so the courts were available. The first Meet was at the Twin Oaks Courts, which were the high school courts back in the old days when I went to school, in Twin Oaks was the high school back then.

Charlie was playing doubles with a fellow boy scout, Luke.

Here they are...

Charlie's friends, Jake and Kowae, were also playing doubles.

Here they are!

I really like my big zoom lens for things like this.
I can actually take some pretty decent shots of him, in motion sometimes!

I'm going to keep taking at many pictures as possible.

Charlie informed me the other day that next year he won't

be going out for tennis because he wants to be in the pit.

The Pit Band in the spring musical. Practices conflict, so you can't

do both. I think a lot of his friends are having a good time in
the pit this year working on the musical "State Fair".

So enjoy the tennis pictures while they are available.

Quantities are limited!



Next year we'll be seeing more of this.