{"id":387,"date":"2007-05-27T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T00:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/2007\/05\/27\/us-open-in-may\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T00:43:08","slug":"us-open-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"US Open in May?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"flashticker\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"cy=un&amp;il=1&amp;channel=288230376160413795&amp;site=widget-63.slide.com\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/widget-63.slide.com\/widgets\/slideticker.swf\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/widget-63.slide.com\/widgets\/slideticker.swf\" quality=\"high\" wmode=\"transparent\" flashvars=\"cy=un&amp;il=1&amp;channel=288230376160413795&amp;site=widget-63.slide.com\" name=\"flashticker\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; width: 400px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slide.com\/pivot?ad=1&amp;tt=15&amp;sk=0&amp;cy=un&amp;th=0&amp;id=288230376160413795&amp;map=1\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slide.com\/pivot?ad=1&amp;tt=15&amp;sk=0&amp;cy=un&amp;th=0&amp;id=288230376160413795&amp;map=2\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friday night we got a treat: a former pro who played 1989 US Open came to challenge Tony who&#8217;s a 5.0 player and rarely does he find a opponent within our circle.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe story went like this: Tony showed up for work &#8211; a.k.a. to play &#8211; was playing first with the blue shorts and the bluey called his buddy the red shorts.\u00a0 Tony teamed up with\u00a0Jimmy\u00a0whom I&#8217;ve\u00a0never met before.\u00a0 When I finished my game &#8211; lost singles to Mark (I was up 4:1, but couldn&#8217;t close the set, lost 6:4), but dished out a bagel to\u00a0Mark and a Korean\u00a0hard hitter like Alex in doubles with Eric &#8211; we followed others to court #4 where the game was in high octane, atmosphere was intense and temper flied couple of times.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like watching the qualifying rounds at the Open.\u00a0 Great stuff.\u00a0 Tony and Jimmy took the first set at 7:5, and they stopped at\u00a02:2 due to night fall.\u00a0 I have the feeling that we&#8217;ll be seeing those often this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Friday night we got a treat: a former pro who played 1989 US Open came to challenge Tony who&#8217;s a 5.0 player and rarely does he find a opponent within our circle.\u00a0 The story went like this: Tony showed up for work &#8211; a.k.a. to play &#8211; was playing first with the blue shorts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","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=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}