{"id":37765,"date":"2013-03-16T20:47:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T20:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=37765"},"modified":"2014-12-06T20:55:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T20:55:20","slug":"my-first-8-0-match-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=37765","title":{"rendered":"My first 8.0 match in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Wednesday,<\/a>

E Shore to Bayview: Wed. Mar 13, 2013 at 5:23pm<\/p><\/div>\n

I did 20 laps in the pool before heading to the match. I got there almost an hour before the match<\/a> time. The front desk kid (he looked like a high school kid) was friendly and chatty.
\nNic was there long before I arrived and Le came second. The lineup was pretty set since, well .. .. since I was playing. Le picked Nic and Jim left holding the bag. The old bag.
\nOur opponents won the toss and he went to serve. We broke hers then I lost mine promptly. I didn’t hold serve in the first set and we lost at 3.
\nSecond set, I continually losing my serve.\u00a0 At 1-3 Jimmy went to serve and held. He Held again. And for the first time, I held mine for a change. During the change over, the bubbly girl started to count the games wrong. She insisted its 5-3. And even took out a note pad, prepared to do the math. I was wondering how would she count, tic tac or what?
\nThe pole by the net has the numbers backward, 1 at the top when all others have the larger number at the top. She later confessed that the pole did her in.
\nAnyway, she served and won. Jimmy then served out a love game. We were still at 4-5.
\nThe guy held every single serve but lost this one.
\nWe were at 5-5.
\nI held mine, miraculously!!
\nShe lost hers.
\nJimmy started the third set tie break and won.
\nHe lost one and won one.
\nI lost both
\nShe won one and lost one.
\nWe were at 3-4
\nJim won one and lost one, at 4-5.
\nFor better or worst, we then took the rest and won the match<\/a>.
\nUnfortunately my team lost .. I was very happy to win my first 8.0 match in 2013 even I didn’t know why we lost first set and didn’t know what’s happened that we won the next two. Jiming pointed out that I was merely floating (as vs\u00a0hitting)\u00a0the ball during the first set.
\nThroughout the match, Jimmy kept telling me to turn to hit<\/a>. After the match, he\u00a0commented that having a positive\u00a0mindset is important,
\n“You know you’re going to win .. or play to win.”
\nThanks partner!!
\nGuess one more thing to remember.
\nSportime at Syosset has decent courts, both hard and har tru. The opposing captain was friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did 20 laps in the pool before heading to the match. I got there almost an hour before the match time. The front desk kid (he looked like a high school kid) was friendly and chatty. Nic was there long before I arrived and Le came second. The lineup was pretty set since, well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37765","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=37765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}