{"id":36276,"date":"2011-04-30T23:56:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T23:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=36276"},"modified":"2011-05-26T13:34:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T13:34:23","slug":"queens-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=36276","title":{"rendered":"Queens semi final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=36275\">scheduling mistake<\/a>, the 7.0 mixed doubles played at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=30042\">City View<\/a>.  The Metro Local League Coordinator warned us that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PLEASE NOTE:   This is a private club and they do not allow food deliveries or meals (chinese food, pizza) to be brought into their facility.  If you team chooses to bring snacks (i.e fruit, crackers\/cheese)  please make sure you clean up when you are done and the club is left clean and neat.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So we got some kielbasa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=1493\">and durian<\/a>.. ok .. joking aside .. we starved to death.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCN07973.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCN07973-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"before the semi\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCN07973-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCN07973-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eight players (out of 10) showed up for work.  My team is famous for handsome guys, beautiful gals and awesome couples: I have 3 pairs of love birds on my team, and I haven&#8217;t heard any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=19588\">bathroom argument, yet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCN08001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCN08001-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"high 5\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCN08001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCN08001-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We faced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=36247\">Vogt\/Kende<\/a>.  Our first doubles was leading 5-1 in the first set but ended up losing it 7-5.  Wah was really mad and lost first game in the second set &#8230; However they came back to win the second set at 6-1 and took command of the super tiebreak.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/fbx\/?set=a.10150173225003403.302927.551603402&#038;l=8a9e3e7a76\">More pix on FB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCN07982.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCN07982-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN0798\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCN07982-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCN07982-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The league (forgot his name .. Steve?) man&#8217;s calling out matches for the semis.  We were able to sit on Court 3 watching our First and the Second pairs play.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSCN0837.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSCN0837-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"a late night snake\/dinner\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSCN0837-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSCN0837-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other semi was Kim vs Rowe\/Bailey. Kim won and would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=36292 \">face us in the final<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/q-SEMI-eng.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/q-SEMI-eng-300x99.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Q semi\" width=\"218\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36277\" \/><\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/q-SEMI-KIM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/q-SEMI-KIM-300x99.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Q semi\" width=\"218\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36278\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1<sup>st<\/sup> 5-7, 6-1, 10-6<br \/>\n2<sup>nd<\/sup> 6-2, 6-4<br \/>\n3<sup>rd<\/sup> 6-7, 3-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to scheduling mistake, the 7.0 mixed doubles played at City View. The Metro Local League Coordinator warned us that: PLEASE NOTE: This is a private club and they do not allow food deliveries or meals (chinese food, pizza) to be brought into their facility. If you team chooses to bring snacks (i.e fruit, crackers\/cheese) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-36276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-2","tag-usta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36276","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=36276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}