{"id":36722,"date":"2012-02-07T08:17:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T08:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=36722"},"modified":"2012-02-07T17:16:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:16:35","slug":"2012-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=36722","title":{"rendered":"Getting hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my mixed doubles partners likes to say that he&#8217;ll only hit hard at the girl in retaliation.  Although his manner on court is short of volcano but he&#8217;s true to his word.  Of course there is a hint of bragging, a.k.a. he could extract a win from him (not her), which is often true too.<br \/>\nYesterday I stayed a little to watch my team play.  The 3D dude caught my attention right away: he hit very hard at my girl who&#8217;s at net.  Then couple of games later he hit her back with an overhead.  His partner made comment to my girl:<br \/>\n&#8221; .. oh at least you turned away.&#8221;<br \/>\nMaybe I&#8217;m just being a mother hen: I didn&#8217;t like it.<br \/>\nThe only little comfort was that my team was leading, 4-1.<br \/>\nThen the lead faded.  They lost the first set.  I couldn&#8217;t bear to watch, and left.  Near the end of dinner, Ron text me the result.  I had a toast for the 3D win in the super tie break, a good pay back.<br \/>\nTennis is a fair game and I&#8217;ve no problem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=36466\">taking a hit<\/a> but for all the times I&#8217;m in the league (and elsewhere), guys in the mixed game are 99% gentlemen: they just don&#8217;t do maniac stuff.  If there is a unwritten code or etiquette, this one will be on the top.<br \/>\nOk, I know we the 3.5ers have limited skill in term of control the ball, but still ..<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tennislink.usta.com\/leagues\/Main\/StatsAndStandings.aspx?t=R-3&#038;par1=1002750906&#038;par2=2012&#038;par3=0&#038;OrgURL=..%2f..%2fleagues%2fCommon%2fHome.aspx\">1D<\/a>: 6-4, 6-4<br \/>\n2D: 6-3, 3-6, 8-10<br \/>\n3D: 4-6, 7-6, 10-4    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my mixed doubles partners likes to say that he&#8217;ll only hit hard at the girl in retaliation. Although his manner on court is short of volcano but he&#8217;s true to his word. Of course there is a hint of bragging, a.k.a. he could extract a win from him (not her), which is often [&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-36722","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\/36722","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=36722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}