{"id":1834,"date":"2008-04-29T17:40:33","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T21:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2011-05-02T14:02:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T14:02:21","slug":"the-spring-break-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=1834","title":{"rendered":"The Spring break tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"426\" height=\"320\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"flashticker\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"cy=un&amp;il=1&amp;channel=288230376168249237&amp;site=widget-95.slide.com\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/widget-95.slide.com\/widgets\/slideticker.swf\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"426\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/widget-95.slide.com\/widgets\/slideticker.swf\" wmode=\"transparent\" flashvars=\"cy=un&amp;il=1&amp;channel=288230376168249237&amp;site=widget-95.slide.com\" align=\"middle\" name=\"flashticker\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 426px; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slide.com\/pivot?cy=un&amp;at=un&amp;id=288230376168249237&amp;map=1\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slide.com\/pivot?cy=un&amp;at=un&amp;id=288230376168249237&amp;map=2\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">Surprisingly I met a group of girls\u00a0from Maryland\u00a0at the Massanutten in Virginia.\u00a0 This\u00a0resort at\u00a0Shenandoah Valley is neither known for golfers nor tennis players.\u00a0 It used to have a 9-hole short course now expanded into 18 holes and an 18-hole.\u00a0 The short course was\u00a0much nicer before the expansion, now inter-linked with roads.\u00a0 Golfers have to keep\u00a0eyes on the\u00a0coming and going cars!\u00a0 The short course was perfect for the area.\u00a0 Not sure what behind the thinking to expand.\u00a0 King played with Golfer, and he would have been much happier if the cours was 9-hole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">The Massanutten have 8 tennis courts, 4 for the owners and 4 for the visiting\/exchanging guests.\u00a0 The courts\u00a0are\u00a0scattered around,\u00a0in need of some\u00a0TLC.\u00a0 The four for the visitors, 3 are being renovated, which leaves one for the entire vast valley.\u00a0 How charming.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know that they reserve 4 for the owners only till I played on it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">Pumpkin and I were playing on the court next to the MD girls.\u00a0\u00a0During our water break, one of the Maryland girls, Robyn came over asking if we&#8217;d like to play doubles.\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 It was the very first time that Pumpkin and I played as\u00a0partners.\u00a0 Oh the joy!\u00a0 My arm wasn&#8217;t painful any more, or I forgot.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t been serving since January, now I have no problem [or no choice but]\u00a0serving, :).\u00a0 Was it dream come true to play with Pumpkin?\u00a0 You bet.\u00a0 Despite we lost\u00a06:2 easily, I loved every minutes of it!!\u00a0 This group of MD girls play on the same or adverary teams one time or another.\u00a0 Some are 3.5 and few are 4.0.\u00a0 They took turns to beat me, :))).\u00a0 Ree said she&#8217;ll probably do\u00a0the <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \"><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.aol.com\/ireneeng\/sports\/entries\/2006\/10\/15\/fdr-vs-west-highway\/375\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">MS ride<\/span><\/a>\u00a0with me this October!\u00a0 Lets go girls!!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Surprisingly I met a group of girls\u00a0from Maryland\u00a0at the Massanutten in Virginia.\u00a0 This\u00a0resort at\u00a0Shenandoah Valley is neither known for golfers nor tennis players.\u00a0 It used to have a 9-hole short course now expanded into 18 holes and an 18-hole.\u00a0 The short course was\u00a0much nicer before the expansion, now inter-linked with roads.\u00a0 Golfers have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kronicle","category-saga","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","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=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}