{"id":45050,"date":"2023-02-17T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45050"},"modified":"2026-02-07T21:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T21:18:44","slug":"the-sweet-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45050","title":{"rendered":"The Sweet Open: tennis tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_7417-scaled.jpg\">the Sweet Open<\/a> (coach initially wrote <em>sweat<\/em> &#x1f613;\u2026 One letter different but actually both are good) is our first vds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?page_id=36254\">tennis<\/a> tournament for the community. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_7627.jpg\">13 men and two women players<\/a> showed up. The coach has to step in to make the 8th team. We drew our partner from a hat &#x1f3a9;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><sup>2026.2.06<\/sup> <\/em><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47383\">Mixed doubles<\/a>: runner up <span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>blue nail polish\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><sup>2025.11.15 <\/sup><\/span><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47135\">Vintage racket<\/a>: won<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><sup>2024.4.06<\/sup><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46176\">the Singles<\/a>: lost in the 2nd round<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><sup>2023.2.17 <\/sup><\/em><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45050\">the Sweet Open<\/a>: won +$50<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_7410-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45054\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_7410-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_7421-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45052\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_7421-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_7419-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45053\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_7419-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lucky me <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_7426-scaled.jpg\">to partner with a good player<\/a>. We won 3 and lost two to the coach\/Stan team.<\/p>\n<p>First match was against Craig\/Dick. As Craig first serve to me went long, a ball rolled onto our court. I said \u201ctake two.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said, &#8220;seriously?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Of course, ball on court.&#8221; I said.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m wondering if these simple etiquette is being followed here. Silly me.<\/p>\n<p>Second match was against Dennis\/Pu. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43888\">We ran into the bad line call again<\/a>. My partner hit a lop that landed on the baseline: you can hear the sound and see the funny bounce. P called it out but Dennis said it\u2019s good. Next up, my first serve was out in the alley but P played it. I lost the point. This is bad, so elementary school stuff. But we beat this team and again twice in a row &#8211; not sure how did this happen with eight teams draw. But I\u2019m very glad we did. Cheater doesn\u2019t deserve to win.<\/p>\n<p>Our third match was again the coach team and we lost.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth match was against Dennis\/P. We won soundly again.<\/p>\n<p>Next match was final against the coach team and we lost again.<\/p>\n<p>The runner up prize is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_7446.jpg\">$50<\/a> &#8230; My first career win: I&#8217;m quitting my day job now &#8230;ha ha ha.<\/p>\n<p>More on bad line calls here:<\/p>\n<p>The usta has a mantra, that \u00a0a 99% out is <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">100% IN<\/span> whenever I encounter a bad line call, and there are a few here, from the same player.<\/p>\n<p>USTA has a couple of rules, too:<\/p>\n<p>#1: if you don\u2019t call an out ball immediately, it\u2019s your opponent\u2019s point. The hawk eye system honors this. When you circle a ball mark 3 times and asking if it\u2019s out, every player knows what\u2019s going on, call it IN and move on.<\/p>\n<p>#2: if two partners disagree on a line call, it\u2019s your opponent\u2019s point.<\/p>\n<p>Both rules, I interpret, are up holding the gentlemen or women\u2019s game: when unsure, be courteous, give the point to your opponent.<\/p>\n<p>You may say, come on old bag &#x1f475;, this is only recreational game. But, the fact that you\u2019re chewing over a line call, shows exactly you care win or loss, that needs rule to play the game fairly. Let\u2019s face it, without rules, how can you can play any game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Won the Sweet Open (coach initially wrote sweat &#x1f613;\u2026 One letter different but actually both are good) is our first vds tennis tournament for the community. 13 men and two women players showed up. The coach has to step in to make the 8th team. We drew our partner from a hat &#x1f3a9;. 2026.2.06 Mixed [&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-45050","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\/45050","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=45050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}