{"id":1001,"date":"2007-10-10T22:56:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T02:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/2007\/10\/10\/an-exciting-night\/"},"modified":"2007-10-10T22:56:30","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T02:56:30","slug":"an-exciting-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"Backhand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\">Did the light bulb just flash in my head?\u00a0 Seeing Fan&#8217;s lethal handsome backhand did something for my backhand &#8211; it&#8217;s improved a lot, suddenly, \ud83d\ude42 &#8211; badminton that is.\u00a0 We played few very exciting sets tonight.\u00a0 In the beginning, there were only Yong and I, for good 20 minutes, we sweat to death.\u00a0 He asked me if tennis is more intensive, I said, no way.\u00a0 Badminton is more exhaustive, <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'MS Song'\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u77ed\u5175\u76f8\u63a5 <\/font><\/span>IMHO anyway.\u00a0 Then came Fan and John.\u00a0 Fan and I played against them, won relative large margin, 15:9.\u00a0 Then John and I played against Michael and Yong, it&#8217;s a tough\u00a0set.\u00a0 We stagnated at 2 for few change overs, till 2:9 did we catch\u00a0up with them, but eventually we lost 13:15.\u00a0 The last set was with Fan, and we lost.\u00a0 Throughout the night, as if Simon was still there, they all hit to me, the weakest link, :).\u00a0 When there is too many players, we don&#8217;t get to play as much, but when few show up, we wear out early.\u00a0 By 10 we all wanted to leave, except Michael, who came late.\u00a0 Fan was\u00a0nice, agreed to\u00a0stay bit long.\u00a0 The points were long and we all played very hard. &#8230; ok, I&#8217;m out .. good night.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did the light bulb just flash in my head?\u00a0 Seeing Fan&#8217;s lethal handsome backhand did something for my backhand &#8211; it&#8217;s improved a lot, suddenly, \ud83d\ude42 &#8211; badminton that is.\u00a0 We played few very exciting sets tonight.\u00a0 In the beginning, there were only Yong and I, for good 20 minutes, we sweat to death.\u00a0 He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}