{"id":22917,"date":"2010-08-01T15:32:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T19:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=22917"},"modified":"2010-08-01T15:32:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T19:32:40","slug":"a-water-lily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=22917","title":{"rendered":"A water lily?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Azarenka-Maria_389X260_080110.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Azarenka-Maria_389X260_080110-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Billy, Victoria and Maria\" title=\"Billy, Victoria and Maria at the Bank of the West Classic 2010\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"left size-medium wp-image-22954\" \/><\/a>My ears are being seriously abused: Maria Sharaova is playing Victoria Azarenka at the Bank of the West Classic 2010 at Stanford, San Francisco.<br \/>\nBUT ..<br \/>\nI like Maria&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=22603\">little dress<\/a>, color wise and design wise.  It looks wonderful on her long torso on TV :).  This picture doesn&#8217;t do her justice.<br \/>\nBoth girls have similar physiques, tall, <del datetime=\"2010-08-01T19:58:33+00:00\">legally<\/del> blond, good looking but their combined grunts just kill it.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a dog fight out there ..<\/p>\n<p>Look who&#8217;s complaining about grunt.  I played this weekend with my usual group.  Before I got on the court, the atmosphere was serene and tranquil.  Everyone was playing peaceful then there came the screamer.  Sorry I can&#8217;t control myself, can&#8217;t stop it.  Ok, at least I don&#8217;t scream <em>after<\/em> I hit the ball, like Azarenka does.<br \/>\nThe cats fight is good.  A great baseline match. &#8230; but it can get boring: hard hitting from baseline&#8230;. never mind, my guests have arrived.  Got to go&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ears are being seriously abused: Maria Sharaova is playing Victoria Azarenka at the Bank of the West Classic 2010 at Stanford, San Francisco. BUT .. I like Maria&#8217;s little dress, color wise and design wise. It looks wonderful on her long torso on TV :). This picture doesn&#8217;t do her justice. Both girls have [&hellip;]<\/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],"class_list":["post-22917","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\/22917","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=22917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}