{"id":29946,"date":"2011-01-19T12:10:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T16:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=29946"},"modified":"2011-01-19T12:10:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T16:10:50","slug":"it-aint-over-till-the-fat-lady-sings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=29946","title":{"rendered":"It ain’t over till the fat lady sings"},"content":{"rendered":"

It ain’t over until the fat lady sings ..
\nI’ll mull this over and over for a while.
\nSecond string for our 9th match of the season. Our opponents were he 4.0\/she 3.0 combo. During the warm up, he hit so hard that I called him to the net and joked<\/del> begged for my little dear life:
\n“Please don’t kill me.” ha ha ha .. very funny.
\nSomehow we played well and won the first set at 6-4. Then she was severing at 2-4. I played aggressive, hit a smart backhand and .. .. we suddenly put ourselves in a pretty secure position: they were 0:40.
\nWhat happened next?
\n\"\"<\/a>Lord knew.
\nWe lost that game.
\nChange over.
\nI was severing.
\nFor the first time, I couldn’t hold.
\n4-4.
\nThe 4.0 killer took next game pretty easily.
\nAt change over, Kai said … “.. oh .. I have to hold .. ” because it’s 10:21. Only 4 minutes remained before the cut off time.
\nFor some reasons unbeknown to me, my mind wasn’t at the court.
\nWe watched a point being played at Court 6. The girl hit a deep shot to the ad court. It’s a very close and my girl called it out. Court 6 change over ensured. Our opponents disagreed on the call and the 4.0 Killer went on to their court telling them the ball landed on line; and he even questioned my guy at water fountain as he was getting a drink.
\nHmmmm .. .. not a good<\/del> right thing to do. I said nothing because the atmosphere was very relaxed and friendly last night. Thanks to all players. On our court, no bad calls on my part (great)<\/del>. Oh, wait, actually there were two out calls I didn’t yell out when Kai was expecting me to shout (not good) .. and he constantly had to save me from behind (when I was too lazy to even try .. .. super bad).
\nIt was an enjoyable match but .. we lost the second set at 4-6. Time was up.
\nI felt yucky and kicked myself well into the wee hours. I’m speed dialing my shrink now.<\/p>\n

Missed opportunity. It’s ours match to lose and we lost it.<\/p>\n

Does everyone grab the opportunity by the neck whenever, as in life? It’s the mental part of it separates<\/a> the good and the better, from time to time. The great has it together all the time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It ain’t over until the fat lady sings .. I’ll mull this over and over for a while. Second string for our 9th match of the season. Our opponents were he 4.0\/she 3.0 combo. During the warm up, he hit so hard that I called him to the net and joked begged for my little […]<\/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-29946","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\/29946","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=29946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}