{"id":38421,"date":"2013-09-22T17:44:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T17:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=38421"},"modified":"2013-09-22T18:22:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T18:22:40","slug":"a-sunny-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=38421","title":{"rendered":"A sunny day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The weather in New York has been so good. A little rain, ok, a decent rain yesterday and last night has washed the earth clean. The trees and grass<\/a>,\u00a0after the taxing sun of the summer are bit dull\u00a0but they perked up under the morning light. \u79cb\u9ad8\u6c14\u723d Crispy autumn air is just wonderful.<\/p>\n

\"Sept<\/a>

Sept 22, 2013<\/p><\/div>\n

I haven’t played with Sunny in a few years. Given my two\u00a0months long hiatus I was hesitated to say yes. But Sunny is Sunny. He calls, Irene jumps<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was only two minutes late, his text is already in “Are you coming?!”<\/p>\n

After brief warm up, Sunny couldn’t wait to start the game. The park is very quiet, I occasionally see a few\u00a0morning walkers pass by. I said to Sunny,<\/p>\n

“I can’t serve and can not run.”<\/p>\n

Hoping that he\u00a0doesn’t have any expectations, or has it but low.\u00a0During the match, of course I keep hitting to the man. Is\u00a0“I have no control .. IF I were having so much control, I’d be a 4.0!” still a valid excuse? It sounds stale\u00a0to me but nevertheless, its\u00a0true in my case. The male player has kick second serve that goes wide to the left, which Sunny reminded me repeatedly. I was playing the ad court. After being aced a couple of times on the second serve, Sunny fed up. He walked over to\u00a0baseline by the ally, using the head of his racket and draw circle on the har-tru: “stay here.”<\/p>\n

Boy, doesn’t\u00a0he look like a dog owner?<\/p>\n

Thank goodness perhaps the nice weather, or long absence from tennis that I had time to reflect or digest, I played well.\u00a0Perhaps my physical limitation (hurts..)\u00a0now that I use my brain more? I know for sure that I only treasure my body parts\u00a0when that part is\u00a0injured or in\u00a0pain. In any case, we won convincingly 3 and 1 over a 7.5 mixed team.<\/p>\n

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The weather in New York has been so good. A little rain, ok, a decent rain yesterday and last night has washed the earth clean. The trees and grass,\u00a0after the taxing sun of the summer are bit dull\u00a0but they perked up under the morning light. \u79cb\u9ad8\u6c14\u723d Crispy autumn air is just wonderful. I haven’t played […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38421","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=38421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}