Tennis Anyone?

I played my first two tennis matches since high schoool on Sunday and Monday. Like my doubles partner said "there is only one direction you can go when you start, and thats up". So I took her adage and went with it. We won our first match on Sunday morning 6-4, 6-1....only to be overcome last night at Vacaville in a match that we lost 6-4, 6-2, 6-3. Ugh! As my tennis coach in high school said to me, when i played for him "Play your game. Don't let them get in you head." Those words i repeated over and over to myself as i dug myself deeper and deeper into our opponents head game....WHAT WAS I THINKING!!! I just couldn't manage to brush them off as well as the mistakes I was making. So now we are back to my partners wise words "the only place to go is up, from here!"