You were a 5 for quite a while, maybe you have a 38 ball limit?
I have reflected some more about how it went in that tournament this past weekend.
I think there were several variables in play
As I stated earlier....i had never seen my first opponent before. When they called my match and he walked up I realized that I had noticed him practicing by himself on the 9 footers for an hour before the tournament started . We were playing on 7 footers. I never practice or warm up before matches and is probably one of my downfalls.
My second match was a lot closer . He had one break and run which gave him 10 points and he only won by 8 . Now this guy was as bad as most pros about rack checking. finding minute cracks I guess I had problems seeing with my 64 year old eyes and kept requesting re racks time after time which got in my head a little.
And there is the little fact that although this was an apa race to points tournament there was no keeping track of innings or safeties which may have contributed to some mighty fine levels of play by some participants.
Bottom line is I did not play my best which is the most contributing factor to me going 2 and out.