{"id":219,"date":"2007-05-10T12:56:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T16:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=219"},"modified":"2007-05-10T12:56:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T16:56:35","slug":"the-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"The server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/2005-08-25-toss.jpg\" title=\"2005-08-25-toss.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/2005-08-25-toss.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"2005-08-25-toss.jpg\" class=\"left\"\/><\/a>Lesson with Craig ended\u00a0last Sunday.\u00a0 He didn&#8217;t bother with our serve till the last two sessions, and didn&#8217;t like my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=13847\">deep knee-bending motion<\/a>,<br \/>\n\u201c.. you\u2019ll get tired by the first set.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\nI felt so awkward not bending my\u00a0knees, lol.\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/2005-08-25-serve-bk-pic.jpg\" title=\"2005-08-25-serve-bk-pic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/2005-08-25-serve-bk-pic.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"2005-08-25-serve-bk-pic.jpg\" class=\"right\"\/><\/a>  One coach said no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=62\">jumping<\/a>;<br \/>\nAnother indicated no bending .. now what&#8217;s left of my serve?\u00a0lol &#8230;<br \/>\nI guess it&#8217;s really up to myself, absorb and utilize\u00a0what works for me.\u00a0 Thought my knee-bending fuels jumping and that gives me an extra height hence the coveted angle. The most vivid serve motion to me was that of Boris Becker, the boom boom who won the the Wimbledon at 17, not to say that Sampras and Federer aren&#8217;t, it just whenever I think about serve, Becker\u2019s always comes on top, wholesome and clear.<\/p>\n<p>Craig said he\u2019s in training, starting a new job at a restaurant in the city, in Midtown east.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t ask what he\u2019ll do, but wondered if he had many interest of private lessons, why didn\u2019t he get concession somewhere like Kerner and teach full time? He\u2019s a good coach, as far as I\u2019m concerned.\u00a0 Guess each pro has to find his or her niche and followings to sustain a coaching career, if they so do desire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesson with Craig ended\u00a0last Sunday.\u00a0 He didn&#8217;t bother with our serve till the last two sessions, and didn&#8217;t like my deep knee-bending motion, \u201c.. you\u2019ll get tired by the first set.\u201d\u00a0 I felt so awkward not bending my\u00a0knees, lol.\u00a0 One coach said no jumping; Another indicated no bending .. now what&#8217;s left of my serve?\u00a0lol [&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],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","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=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}