Winning Without Knowing You Had Won

I had a funny experience when playing in my last tournament that I thought was interesting enough to put up here.

I had won the first set and was ahead in the second set, and after breaking serve, we then were changing sides. I am sure you have seen the scoring devices that many courts have to help you keep score of the games. When I went to change the score, all of a sudden I realized that I had won the second set and the match was over. I had never won a match before and not known I had won.

But that is only half the story. My opponent also did not realize that the match was over and that he had lost. Needless to say, we both had a good laugh over us not knowing that the match was over.

I told him that I had played some matches that I didn’t know how I had won, but I had never played a match where I didn't know I had won. It was just too weird.

This story really doesn’t have any importance to you in helping you play better and I will let you figure out what it says about my mental abilities. I just thought it was different.