{"id":45009,"date":"2022-12-28T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45009"},"modified":"2023-10-27T01:27:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T01:27:54","slug":"hows-my-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45009","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;s my serve after long hiatus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_3040-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45012 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_3040-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43689\">first video<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=26691\">my serve<\/a> after a 20 month hiatus. We&#8217;ve a few cold days when the temperature dropped below zero. Today is the first day that&#8217;s warm enough to play, and we&#8217;ve six players.<\/p>\n<p>I won the first set with a girl, 6-2 but lost the second set with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44999\">my colorful partner<\/a>\u00a03-6, though we were leading 3-0 to begin. As it happened, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_3037-scaled.jpg\">we&#8217;re all in black<\/a>\u00a0today &#8211; maybe we need to add some colors -:)<\/p>\n<p>The pool temp is 76\u00ba: heaven on earth. I even found <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/p7K5zADbPIc\">a little shy lizard buddy on deck<\/a>, who keeps me company.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#tennisserve\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mU0g3waJoeY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first video of my serve after a 20 month hiatus. We&#8217;ve a few cold days when the temperature dropped below zero. Today is the first day that&#8217;s warm enough to play, and we&#8217;ve six players. I won the first set with a girl, 6-2 but lost the second set with\u00a0my colorful partner\u00a03-6, though we [&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-45009","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\/45009","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=45009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}