{"id":22470,"date":"2010-06-20T23:01:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T03:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=22470"},"modified":"2018-01-28T18:51:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T18:51:07","slug":"the-woman-in-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=22470","title":{"rendered":"The Woman in Red"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"coin<\/a>First thing first. Our first match at the Sectionals vs Southern. My partner Sean at coin toss ceremony<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I floated into the court feeling like a million buck<\/del> light and happy but soon were sent off the court on our own feet: we lost decisively at 1 and 1. Better than the bicycles, right? I’m thick skinned<\/del> optimistic. The guy was just too good: he’s 4.0<\/a> and she was 3.5 who’s solid too. The other two pairs of the opposing team – Chestnut Ridge (Westchester) were all 7.0 in combo:
\n1st Doubles: Eng 7.0 vs CR 7.5
\n2nd Doubles: 7.0 vs 7.0
\n3rd Doubles: 7.0 vs 7.0
\nOn paper, we had a dream lineup: the weakest pair (Sean and I) played their strongest so that our other two teams would have better chance of winning. But the reality wasn’t quit so, with the hidden gem(s).
\n\"The<\/a>The skipper (right) and the lady in red skirt to the left<\/span>
\nDoes anyone remember of seeing this lady, in red skirt? Whom I had played last summer<\/a>? Who told me that she’s on St. Johns’ team? It turned out her name is Judith A Norton (her sister<\/em> Danielle S. Carr are both 4.0 player in the league. Apparently They also joined the league this season, as freshman.)
\nAccording to the NTRP<\/a>,<\/p>\n

NAIA, Div. 2 & 3 unranked college team player (commited to, playing, or played )<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

should ranked at 4.5 if under the age of 35 and 4.0 for 35 and over. She certainly doesn’t look like a day older than 28 but guess she is or ..?
\nThe funny part’s she didn’t recognize me at all and that she and Danielle S. Carr aren’t sisters at all, but collectively or commonly to be known as The Carton<\/a>, guess she had fun time fooling this old bag, telling me fab :).
\nAnyway, Wai and Mary had an easy set, 6:1 but was totally dead in the second, getting bageled. Sounded like the way Simon and I were being played last summer at Cunningham Park. Ogbonna Chilaka was too good to be a 3.0 man. There are tricks to employ to protect a player’s lower-than-actual ranking, by dumping games\/matches. Bill had told me from the beginning that there are two types of teams: one playing for fun and one playing to win.
\nWinning is great. But does it feel great to hoisting the trophy knowing well tricks were used?
\nHa .. remember .. life isn’t always fair<\/a> and should you decide to join the League<\/em>, take it like a man.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

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First thing first. Our first match at the Sectionals vs Southern. My partner Sean at coin toss ceremony. I floated into the court feeling like a million buck light and happy but soon were sent off the court on our own feet: we lost decisively at 1 and 1. Better than the bicycles, right? I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,17],"class_list":["post-22470","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\/22470","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=22470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}