Who Art Thou Cory!?!

With my upcoming showdown with Cory quickly approaching, (Wednesday afternoon), I realized that my millions of readers might want to know who exactly Cory is.

Cory has been my best friend since the day we met seven years ago. That we played the same three sports, were involved with all the same extracurricular activities, and shared most of the same classes throughout high school basically meant that we had to be friends.

The problem with this friendship: we have played 500 plus sets of tennis, and I have never won a single one of them.

Zero

Zip

Nada

Nil

The underlying goal of this blog for me is to finally get to the top of the mountain and beat Cory. Since I have yet to accomplish this in the 7+ years of tennis we have played against one another I feel the hike is going to be pretty steep. I do have a couple ideas on how to beat Cory.Here's the tale of the tape:

                   Justin                     Cory
                      
Serve:           X                             -

Forehand:      -                             X

Backhand:     -                             X

Volleys:         X                             -

Intagibles:       -                            X


As seen from the highly technical chart from above Cory has the advantage 3-2.

My serve is better, and thanks to my doubles experience in high school i can volley quite well.

Cory's groundstrokes are much better than mine because he is much more consistent. Also, since I have never beaten him I gave him the edge in the intangible department because of the psychological advantage he has on me.

How do I beat him? I need to draw him into the net and put pressure on his serve because those are the weak points of his game. Hopefully, by using my knowledge about his game, various strategies and different racquets I will hopefully be able to finally get the monkey off my back and beat him.