A match to remember

Level and Partner: 7.5 Women's Combo with Marty
Location and Date: 6th of August,8.30 pm at Worldgate
Opponent: Make it a Double.
Marty and I have played once before but that was long time ago and since it was the first time we played together, the lack of knowledge of each other's strengths and weaknesses made us a "a not very strong team"
This time it was different. Having been in the same women's team for the last 8 months I was comfortable with her and I knew she was a chatter box :). Sometimes it better that your partner talks even if it is nonsense. Better than the alternative of a "cold" partner.
Marty tells me they are a strong team, one of them adds a lot of spin to her shots and the other has strong deep ground strokes.
Today I am very happy for some reason, I am not bogged down by other challenges in my life which kind of lets me just concentrate on the match at hand and I am raring to go.
---One thing about the getting bogged down part, sometimes these negatives thoughts creep in at the most crucial points in the match and render me helpless and I have kicked myself for having swayed by such negativity in the aftermath of the match.---

The opponents seem to be a little tentative and we break them right in the first game.Now it is our serve,my partner and I agree that she should serve since experience has taught us she is the better server.(Usually when your partner's serve is better than yours, you are not under pressure during your serve which works in your favor). We hold our serve,break again but my serve is broken.(We are at 3-1 now). Anyways I am not very disheartened. My net game is working yay!. We take the set at the first set point and set is ours at 6-2.

The second set is very competitive, it looks like the opponents are now in their rhythm and that goes on until 3-3. Just a few floppy points from us and the opponents win the 2nd set 6-3 :(

The third set is not a full set, it is usually a 10 point tiebreak. Tiebreaks are tricky but today I as I said earlier I am ready for anything.
My partner and I(on her suggestion) and some deliberation switch our receiving sides just to give the opponents a different look and something to think about.
It seems to work and we are neck to neck. After some high tension points when trailing behind 6-8, we make it to 9-8 and we have a matchpoint! My only regret of the day, I lose a baseline rally at this point damn! Lose the point and then lose the match to a score 9-11 :( in th tiebreak.
On retrospect our other courts all lost in straight sets,atleast we had a good battle and a good match and I had found a good partner in Marty.