{"id":44987,"date":"2022-12-17T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44987"},"modified":"2022-12-18T23:14:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T23:14:15","slug":"a-great-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44987","title":{"rendered":"A great start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_2795-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-44988 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_2795-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Jay and I got to a wonderful start, winning 6-2, serving well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t give up, let&#8217;s take the second set too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ok.&#8221; I said to my partner as much as to remind myself.<\/p>\n<p>5-0.<\/p>\n<p>One more game, we&#8217;ll bag the win.<\/p>\n<p>However, the tide turned against us, continuously for the next five games when two spectators showed up.<\/p>\n<p>At 5-6, we finally broke them and tied the set at 6-6.<\/p>\n<p>Tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Then &#8230; we lost it at 5-7.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay and I got to a wonderful start, winning 6-2, serving well. &#8220;Don&#8217;t give up, let&#8217;s take the second set too.&#8221; &#8220;Ok.&#8221; I said to my partner as much as to remind myself. 5-0. One more game, we&#8217;ll bag the win. However, the tide turned against us, continuously for the next five games when two [&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-44987","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\/44987","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=44987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}