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BAD EXPERIENCE AT THE TENNIS TOURNAMENT

The experience I’m going to talk about next is this one time when I had a bad experience on a tennis tournament.

As you all know I’m a tennis player, so tennis means a lot to me.

It all started back in 2012 when I signed for this tennis tournament in Argentina, the name of the tournament was the KIDS CUP.

I would like to start saying that back in 2012 I was only 15 years old so I was just a little kid traveling just with the company of my trainer, (her name is Alejandra).

First I flew from Colombia to Argentina with my tennis trainer and the first thing we did as soon as we landed was having something to eat because the fight didn’t arrived on time so by the time we landed we were starving.

After we ate something we went to the hotel to leave our luggage and get dressed to have a previous tennis practice. I remember exactly that we landed in Argentina on a Thursday afternoon and the tennis tournament was supposed to start on Friday morning so we were actually in a hurry because we just had one day to practice before the tournament started.

So we left our luggage at the hotel, we rested for about one hour and then we took a taxi to the tennis club where the tournament was supposed to take place.  After 20 minutes of practice I started having a stomach ache but it wasn’t that bad so I kept playing I said nothing to my coach.  I was feeling so bad by the time we finished practicing that I could barely walk.

So I couldn’t hide it anymore and I told my coach I was in so much pain that we needed to go to the hospital, and as soon as I told her I was having a stomach ache she told me she was in pain too.  So we both went to the hospital.

Remember all this stuff happened on Thursday and the tournament was supposed to started on Friday.

By the time we got to the hospital we started talking to the Doctor and his first question was: what did you girls have been eating?

And we told him that we were two healthy tennis players and we liked to take care of our diet.

Everything was so weird because I never get sick and usually I like to eat healthy. But suddenly I remembered that when we landed we had a Burger at the airport, and we both got the same Burger and we didn’t liked it so much, but we were starving  so we ate it anyway.

Well, it turned out that the Burger was the thing that got us sick so the doctor instructions was to had immediate rest, a lot of pills to heal the stomach ache, a lot of water and of course I wasn’t able to played the tennis tournament.

So that’s my story. It wasn’t that bad because nothing serious happened to me or my coach, but imagine traveling for 5 hours on a plane with the illusion of playing a tennis tournament and for a stupid mistake don’t be able to do it. 

What would you do if you were on my shoes?

Would you play the tournament even though the Doctor said no?


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