{"id":19216,"date":"2010-03-16T22:20:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T02:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=19216"},"modified":"2010-03-16T22:20:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T02:20:34","slug":"a-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=19216","title":{"rendered":"A trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last week&#8217;s lesson, coach Dai told girls there&#8217;s one trick that kids employee: late calling serve out, when the two failed to call out each others serve loudly and in a timely fashion.<br \/>\nPumpkin delivered a serve that&#8217;s 3 inches out.  Bev returned it.  Pumpkin didn&#8217;t know if to continue or stop.  Then she lost the point.<br \/>\nDai called the girls over, explained:<br \/>\n&#8220;Many kids use this as a tool to cheat.  When the serve&#8217;s out, they&#8217;ll return it and when it felt going out, then would they call it out.  Otherwise they&#8217;ll insist it&#8217;s in.  It&#8217;s good.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said .. &#8220;to continue to play as it is a good unless the opponent calls it out.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe two are friends; neither them are crafty enough to cheat.  They knew each other since toddlers.  Pumpkin used to call <em>Bubbly<\/em> since she was too young to pronounce her name correctly.  I guess it&#8217;s bit hard asking them to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=18582\">call out on each other<\/a>.  They&#8217;re not tour pro yet.  Just some kids who love tennis, and doing it recreationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last week&#8217;s lesson, coach Dai told girls there&#8217;s one trick that kids employee: late calling serve out, when the two failed to call out each others serve loudly and in a timely fashion. Pumpkin delivered a serve that&#8217;s 3 inches out. Bev returned it. Pumpkin didn&#8217;t know if to continue or stop. Then she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-19216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saga","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19216","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=19216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}