{"id":38349,"date":"2013-08-18T22:46:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T22:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=38349"},"modified":"2013-08-20T17:52:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T17:52:48","slug":"the-blink-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=38349","title":{"rendered":"The blink moment @ Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=38249\">Li Na<\/a>&#8216;s blink moment last month, now it&#8217;s Serena&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=18582\">blink moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Serena won the first set easily at 2. Victoria Azarenka is serving at 0:40 but leads 4:2 in the second set. Her serve was out and Serena did not challenge. A few points later she eventually loses the game. IF she challenged, it was her game &#8211; would bring the score to 3:4 on serve, and the third set might not be necessary. I do not know what has crossed her mind at that moment. She has the challenges at her disposal yet she elected not to use one of them, giving a won game to the opponent.<br \/>\nSerena was very relaxed (or tired .. Neither of them had won this tournament before.) throughout the match. She loses her serve and the set, at 6:2.<br \/>\nAt third set tie break, Victoria was serving at 4:3 but lost both serves.<br \/>\n5:4 Serena began to serve.<br \/>\n5:5 Serena missed an open court<br \/>\n6:5 Victoria had the match point.<br \/>\n6:6 Serena hit a cross court return winner<br \/>\n7:6 .. few more rallies .. Victoria won at the net .. Oh well.<br \/>\n6:7 Serena goes to serve.. She sends a baseline shot to the net ..oh well.<\/p>\n<p>John Isner lost to Nadal earlier in two straight tiebreaks. OH well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking about Li Na&#8216;s blink moment last month, now it&#8217;s Serena&#8217;s blink moment. Serena won the first set easily at 2. Victoria Azarenka is serving at 0:40 but leads 4:2 in the second set. Her serve was out and Serena did not challenge. A few points later she eventually loses the game. IF she challenged, [&hellip;]<\/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-38349","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\/38349","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=38349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}