{"id":39886,"date":"2010-12-26T21:13:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T21:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39886"},"modified":"2014-12-26T23:40:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T23:40:38","slug":"david-the-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39886","title":{"rendered":"David the coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Gerald<\/a>, in the 1990s,\u00a0I took\u00a0a lesson from a Chinese coach named David.<\/p>\n

I found him on the Chinese newspaper. (Why did I do that was beyond me .. perhaps out of curiosity? and less expensive?) He said he was from Shanghai and arrived in New York not too long ago. He was not tall and not lean. An average middle age man.<\/p>\n

It was a summer\u00a0afternoon. As soon as we filled into the court, he picked the side with his back to the sun. I did not like the sun in my face too. But I said nothing. When we began our lesson, I found him wasn’t doing anything, except feeding me the ball, softly. After emptying the basket, he told me to pick up the balls while he retreat to the shadow to take his water. When I asked him if we could switch side, he replied that his eyes were sensitive to the bright sunlight, he couldn’t function. When I asked him to hit with me from the baseline, he replied, he couldn’t do that because it required a lot of energy from him and he needed to preserve his energy because he had two more lessons scheduled that day. That was it. I never called him again.<\/p>\n

Thanks lord he did not insisted on a block of lessons (usually 5 to 10 in a package deal). I was curios when I saw the tennis lesson being placed on the Chinese newspaper.\u00a0The way I knew China, this coach must be\u00a0on the national team or at least the provincial\u00a0because tennis was, almost unheard of\u00a0sport in China. He looked and acted arrogant, which was not too surprise to me: they were spoiled in China and often exhibited that they were\u00a0above everyone. Ha.<\/p>\n

Welcome to America, the land of opportunity and equality.<\/p>\n

What I found amusing was his attitude toward physical activity. I would think, for a professional\u00a0athlete,\u00a0getting tired and sweating are\u00a0part of job.\u00a0 Yet, he tried to\u00a0avoid it.<\/p>\n

Yuan Meng<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Gerald, in the 1990s,\u00a0I took\u00a0a lesson from a Chinese coach named David. I found him on the Chinese newspaper. (Why did I do that was beyond me .. perhaps out of curiosity? and less expensive?) He said he was from Shanghai and arrived in New York not too long ago. He was not tall […]<\/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-39886","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\/39886","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=39886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}