{"id":36794,"date":"2012-04-08T18:30:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T18:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=36794"},"modified":"2013-05-18T19:54:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T19:54:43","slug":"our-last-two-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=36794","title":{"rendered":"Our last two matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing, April 8<br \/>\nThe 11th match on April 1 was vs Yao: we lost first and second court but <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\">won third court<\/a>, which made our last match on April 6 a must-sweep match. I left for Beijing that night.<br \/>\nI recalled a brief conversation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=16266\">Schenectady in 2010<\/a>:<br \/>\n&#8220;Irene, you&#8217;re the captain, you need to assert your stance.&#8221; The player used her hand to stress her point.<br \/>\nHave I been?<br \/>\nWell .. ..<br \/>\nThe last match on April 6 has lined up and ready to go but one of my mates who&#8217;s on the lineup assertively (to put it mildly) insisted to change her partner.<br \/>\nI gave in.<br \/>\nUnfortunately we came up short, lost the third court in the <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\">third set super tiebreak<\/a>.  3 points short to make the play offs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=38017\">for the very first time<\/a>.  Oh well.  My fault. Better luck or work harder next time.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks team for a great run!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing, April 8 The 11th match on April 1 was vs Yao: we lost first and second court but won third court, which made our last match on April 6 a must-sweep match. I left for Beijing that night. I recalled a brief conversation in Schenectady in 2010: &#8220;Irene, you&#8217;re the captain, you need to [&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":[],"class_list":["post-36794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36794","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=36794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}