{"id":44781,"date":"2022-08-18T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44781"},"modified":"2024-06-30T16:35:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T16:35:24","slug":"my-tennis-rackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44781","title":{"rendered":"My tennis rackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0382-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-44783 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0382-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I started to play tennis since 1986. And don&#8217;t buy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44310\">many gears<\/a>. Cleaning today, found some of my past rackets.<\/p>\n<p>My first one was the most expensive one: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0383-3-scaled.jpg\">a pearl white Prince<\/a> that cost over $200 in 1986 and it was heavy. The only thing made me buy it was the look. My next one was a radish Thunderbolt that I lost in the park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_8922-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45069 alignleft\" title=\"2023.3.04 Sat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_8922-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Got new grips and re-strung the handles. The red Babolat on the left was purchased in 2011, right after Li Na won her first grand slam in Paris. It&#8217;s weak and soft, that I use it when I play with girls. The blue on the right was a hand me down, with adequate power and is my main toy.<\/p>\n<p>The ball holders are my favorite &#8211; made in West Germany. They&#8217;re solid and looking pretty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DateStamper_1114-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DateStamper_1114-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started to play tennis since 1986. And don&#8217;t buy many gears. Cleaning today, found some of my past rackets. My first one was the most expensive one: a pearl white Prince that cost over $200 in 1986 and it was heavy. The only thing made me buy it was the look. My next one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44781","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}