{"id":11709,"date":"2009-08-29T20:43:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T00:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=11709"},"modified":"2009-08-29T20:43:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T00:43:37","slug":"donald-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=11709","title":{"rendered":"Donald Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hzgbnZcPgz8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hzgbnZcPgz8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen him few years ago, in SI.  The large picture was taken from above while he was about to strike out a powerful serve.  It captured the motion beautifully, as well as the greenish eye color.  Really cool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease do better than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=10022\">James Blake<\/a>.\u201d  I remembered thinking to myself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/0CIMG8310.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"right size-medium wp-image-11719\" title=\"Phantom of .. fill in the blank\" src=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/0CIMG8310-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ph of .. fill in the blank\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>After the BBQ, I returned to collect Pumpkin at USTA.  We agreed to see one more match.  Donald it is.<\/p>\n<p>We were waiting for the break to enter the court.  One young Asian boy holding the huge fizzle ball elbowed his way to the front while his dad looked on.<\/p>\n<p>The Donald won the game in 2 sets.<\/p>\n<p>I went down to take a picture, hoping for a frontal.  Couldn\u2019t forget his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The Asian boy was down there too.  I heard the father telling him in Chinese<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGet his signature.  He\u2019ll be a star.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I laughed to myself.<\/p>\n<p>At age 20?  Not likely.<\/p>\n<p>I wished he were in top 5.<\/p>\n<p>USA is really lacking behind.<\/p>\n<p>Where is the next generation of players?<\/p>\n<p>Couple of good looking players .. Ksenia Lykina of Russia in blue trim, and Andrea Hlavackova of Cze in one piece and the phantom of  &#8230; fill in the blank \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/0CIMG8315.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11718\" title=\"Ksenia Lykina\" src=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/0CIMG8315-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ksenia Lykina\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/0CIMG8340.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11717\" title=\"Andrea Hlavackova \" src=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/0CIMG8340-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"0CIMG8340\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen him few years ago, in SI. The large picture was taken from above while he was about to strike out a powerful serve. It captured the motion beautifully, as well as the greenish eye color. Really cool. \u201cPlease do better than James Blake.\u201d I remembered thinking to myself. After the BBQ, I returned [&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":[9,19],"class_list":["post-11709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis","tag-us-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11709","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=11709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}