{"id":16201,"date":"2010-02-22T23:11:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T03:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=16201"},"modified":"2013-03-14T18:51:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T18:51:51","slug":"how-nerves-are-you-before-each-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=16201","title":{"rendered":"How nervous are you before each match?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t feel that I get nerves before a match, and I play it as normal as I normally play.  Hmmmm &#8230; The other day <a href=\"http:\/\/tennislink.usta.com\/leagues\/reports\/TennisLinkReports.asp?Level=M&#038;MatchID=1001471769\">Feb 11<\/a>, returning to the Westside tennis club I was bit jumpy.  As soon as I sat down, I suddenly felt my knees were going.<br \/>\nOh sugar, I forgot to bring balls: home team supplies balls.<br \/>\nThink quick. Ha, no worry.  I have extra cans in the truck.<br \/>\nQuickly I raced to the car and got an armful of balls.<br \/>\nOh, sugar.  No, we weren&#8217;t the home team.<br \/>\nAnxiety.  Not me.  Ya right.<br \/>\nPaul perhaps sensed something or he never had confident in me, rearranged the line up, pairing me with him in the third.  It wasn&#8217;t a close match.  I&#8217;ve been playing lopsided matches except the first one when it was decided in the third set tie break .. but we got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=16800 \">3:0 lead to start off<\/a> ..  so, it wasn&#8217;t a tight match as one would like to have.<\/p>\n<p>#1 Doubles: 3-6, 6-1, 1-0  (10:8)<br \/>\n#2 Doubles: 6-2, 6-2<br \/>\n#3 Doubles: 6-1, 6-2  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t feel that I get nerves before a match, and I play it as normal as I normally play. Hmmmm &#8230; The other day Feb 11, returning to the Westside tennis club I was bit jumpy. As soon as I sat down, I suddenly felt my knees were going. Oh sugar, I forgot to [&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":[9,17],"class_list":["post-16201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis","tag-usta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16201","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=16201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}