{"id":17043,"date":"2010-06-22T18:48:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T22:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=17043"},"modified":"2014-12-20T21:02:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T21:02:46","slug":"summary-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=17043","title":{"rendered":"Summary of Queens team 7.0 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The league <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39860\">made me<\/a> a better player.<\/p>\n<p>Not that no one has ever mentioned to lob, to play on the deuce court, to serve down the middle and practice more forehand. But it seems I suddenly realized that I need to utilize all those tools on court, in order, well, to win.<\/p>\n<p>Notes to aspiring new captains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Knows who uses iPhone\/Crackberry<\/li>\n<li>Make sure everyone checks their email daily<\/li>\n<li>Eliminate careless\/innocent mistakes = as 99% out still makes it 100% in<\/li>\n<li>Recruit player who exhibits good sportsmanship.\u00a0 The mean girl might be the catalyst for your trouble<\/li>\n<li>Set your priority: winning or having a good time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Paul displays a serious demeanor on court. The intensity could be overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>I had the habit of serving from both corners, feeling I didn&#8217;t have to run in order to cover that side of the alley. Although many partners had advised me not to do so but I continuously did. Until my last match with Paul when a light bulb went off in my little dim head. Or maybe his intensity forced me into thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Communicating well on court makes the difference between winning or losing, especially during the tough moments.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about my last waterloo match with Wai when we didn&#8217;t communicate well. As I was losing one service game after another .. so Wai told me to serve in the middle. I thought he asked me serve <em>to<\/em> the middle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ok.&#8221; I replied but continuously fired from the corner and got killed. At change over Wai asked me again. I asked myself if he was insane: if I were able to serve to the middle wouldn&#8217;t I be 4.0 myself?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After I put in another wide serve and the girl returned with a great angle, Wai was really really mad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re telling me you can&#8217;t serve from the middle?&#8221; He screamed exasperatedly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No I can&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t have that type of control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He looked puzzled.<\/p>\n<p>-:(<\/p>\n<p>A rain storm came to visit, interrupted our play, few <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/album.php?aid=272829&amp;id=551603402&amp;l=491bcc135d\">teammates<\/a> dancin&#8217; in the rain, June 3, 2007<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=16918\">jia baoyu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=16887\">west side tennis club<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=17029\">foot fault<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=17020\">my tennis group<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=18138\">match standing <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=19047\">Leveling the playing field<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=19224\">the Manhattan n Queens charts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>match standing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=18138\">as of Feb 23<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=21424\">The art of lineup<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=21308 \">5\/15 or 5\/22<\/a><\/p>\n<p>xx .. xx<\/p>\n<p>\u8fc7\u4e94\u5173\u65a9\u516d\u5c06 wu guan liu jiang<\/p>\n<p>Queens 7.0 Mixed Doubles has total 9 teams that splited into two groups: Division One has 5 teams, #1 &#8211; #5 and Two has 4 teams: #6 &#8211; #9. We&#8217;re #7 in Div 2.<\/p>\n<p>wu guans:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=19588\">Regular Season<\/a> (Jan &#8211; Mar in four differnt venues): 11 matches resulting 4 teams to advance to playoffs: 2 top teams from either division. We the Team 7 played 3 other teams in our own Division twice and once against the Div One&#8217;s 5 teams.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=20726\">Division Playoffs<\/a> (April 11 at NTC, New York): 1 match that yielded two teams for the next round. First Place Team of each Div\u00a0 plays Second Play Team of the other Division.<\/li>\n<li>District (Queens) Playoffs: (April 11 at NTC): 1 match, single elimination format.<\/li>\n<li>Regional (Area or Metro) Playoffs: (May at NTC) : 1 match against Manhattan League; single elimination format<\/li>\n<li>Eastern Sectional Playoffs : June 4-6 in Schenectady: round robin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=22470\">match 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=22319\">match 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=26922\">match 3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=27013 \">match 4<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=27043 \">match 5<\/a><\/li>\n<li>National: failed to make it<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=22319\">Our team standing at season end<\/a> by MTG; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=22302\">some suggestions<\/a>..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The league made me a better player. Not that no one has ever mentioned to lob, to play on the deuce court, to serve down the middle and practice more forehand. But it seems I suddenly realized that I need to utilize all those tools on court, in order, well, to win. Notes to aspiring [&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-17043","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\/17043","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=17043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}