After first beating him in a highly contested, though short match 4-2, 3-1(or something). My confidence was at top!
Then, we started a best of 3 sets of 6 games match.
I was confident after the short match and was sure it would be a tight set and decided by small margins. However!! He didn't win it by one game. Neither did he dominate by winning by 2 or 3 games..... He didn't give me any chance at all!! I tried everything from the baseline. I tried to take him off guard by going to the net,but no matter what, he completely bulldozed over everything I threw at him. He demolishing me 0-6 in the first set!
I was inches away from giving my controller a flight to the wall, but was able to withdraw that thought going into the second set. Then finally(!) I was able to break him. With a little confidence renewed I could focus more on my game. I switched up my game and was more defensive than in the first set, just sending his attacks right back to him. This made every point last at least 6 shots and more each. Very rarely any points going under 5-6 shots. It was an endurance test I haven't seen the likes of in TS4. Every point was a fight to the bitter end. None of us was giving away anything. We traded games from 3-3 to 5-5. Then, a lack of concentration from Lupac and I was able to break him. Since I had served for the set unsuccessful a few minutes back, my heart was really pounding when I was going to serve for the set this second time. I opened up with two good first serves, giving me 30-0. Which he answered with great play to go 30-30. Then after a 20-30 shots point I got my first match point and I made it! An insane feeling really. Didn't know TS4 could be so immensely intense.
Then the last set we fought and fought, but he never really switched up his game. He was probably demoralized after the second set, as he also produced a few unforced errors. After breaking him twice I got my first chance to serve for the match. Which I took! Winning the match 0-6, 7-5, 6-2! 1 hour and 24 minutes of incredible lows and highs for me! I never thought I would be able to rise after being so severely beaten in the first set, but I did it. So now I'm really looking forward playing the Australian Open! Hoping I can play as good as I played in this match, where I really had to dig deep to battle myself to the win.
In addition to a insane match. I told him about us and he was surely going to check out the site. Hopefully we'll have him with us into AO. He is listed number 2 in the lifetime ranking and he's not at all cheesy. In fact, it was quite a surprise to me that he had never heard of ITST.
Hope he will join! Will definitely be a good player to have in the tour. 
