14/12/2008

MITTAL ARRIVES!!!!!!
Mittal reached at 7:30 in the morning and was getting restless to go to the court. I was going to pick him up at the airport. I went in search for some transport till the Gajendra Circle but couldn’t find anything. So came back and slept. We told mittal to sleep straightaway. And told him that we would go to see the girls’ semis and he needn’t worry. Girls had it easy against roorkee and Mittal had already woken up by 10 and came to the court. Everyones’ heads turned towards him and it was heartening to see him at the court! We did some drills, trying to give Mittal a feel of the court. We played a few doubles too and by the end of the practice session, Mittal seemed satisfied. I broke my MP25 :(. During doubles practice, Kunal's racket collided with mine and that was it! Was really sad about that, and wasn't feeling very comfortable playing with the new MP 99. Mittal kept telling me it was all in my head. Didn't have any other choice too. In the evening, We did ROORKEE 3-0 3 years in a ROW! Anish played another awesome game against Sanath and beat him in straight sets. We were all a little concerned about how Mittal would play, with all the tiredness and no practice, but we needn’t have worried. Mittal annihilated Gotham (freshie from roorkee) and thereafter Me and Chuunn played against Gotham and Himanshu and I won my first doubles in IITM. There was this Roorkee guy shouting against us during the match. And as soon as the match got over, Mittal went over to his side and shouted ”Roorkee Loses 3-0 3 years in a row!!!!!!” After the match, we went to the lawns in front of Himalaya complex and sat there doing tp. Clicked infi photos there. We felt like going to CCD from there. Sharada wanted to sleep as it was already past 10:30 (her sleeping time!!!) but somehow we managed to convince her to come. After having chocoflocs and coffee, we went back. On the way back to the hostel, we started singing (rather yelling) “Hum Kis Gali Jaa Rahe Hain” all the to the hostel. On reaching, we saw a couple of episodes of FRIENDS and went off to sleep.