{"id":45353,"date":"2023-05-27T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45353"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:17:04","slug":"my-first-pickleball-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45353","title":{"rendered":"My first pickleball playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_5350-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45357 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_5350-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#x1f60a; made into my very first pickleball playoff: 16 players in seven rounds. I won 29 points (winning team awards the difference of the two scores; losing team receives 0). In the play off &#8211; the 8th round, three big boys took &#x1f947;, silver and bronze medal &#x1f949; \u2026 little Irene left empty hand &#x1f602; (wait a second &#8211; I can always change my gender \u2026 right? &#x1f606; &#x1f602;)<\/p>\n<p>I played probably less than 10 times in total, even counting in the few times in new Yoek, and am still making elementary mistakes, like volley in the kitchen and hit a return without bouncing, \u2026 on top of it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45309\">my hitting arm is in pain<\/a>. Having missed last tourney, I decided to play no matter what. (Not play, my &#x2764;&#xfe0f; will be in pain \u2026 so two pains vs one pain, a simple math &#x1f9ee;) Glad I did. A little improvement: can manage the scores without mistake &#x1f60a;<\/p>\n<p>Big hearty thanks to all my eight partners!<\/p>\n<p>All have a great Memorial Day &#8211; very grateful to those who served!<\/p>\n<p>The result<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#1 Mary 11-0 vs Linda and Melany<\/li>\n<li>#2 Angela 4-11, man n Mary<\/li>\n<li>#3 Linda 5-11, \u00a0Bob n Angela<\/li>\n<li>#4 Bob 12-10, Mary Marc<\/li>\n<li>#5 Marc 10-2, Linda n guy<\/li>\n<li>#6 Smallot 5-11, Melany and Bob<\/li>\n<li>#7 Melany 11-4 Marc and Angela<br \/>\nI won 29 points \u21d1\u00a0before the playoffs \u21d3<\/li>\n<li>#8 John A, 5-11, Bob &amp; Wilson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u6253\u8fdb\u7b2c\u4e00\u4e2a\u5339\u514b\u7403 (?) \u51b3\u8d5b [\u5f97\u610f]<br \/>\n\u4e09\u4e2a\u7537\u751f\u8d62\u4e86\u91d1\u94f6\u94dc\u5956<br \/>\n\u524d\u524d\u540e\u540e\u603b\u5171\u6ca1\u6709\u6253\u8fc710\u6b21+\u53f3\u80f3\u818a\u75bc\u4e86\u597d\u51e0\u5929\u4e86<br \/>\n\u4e0d\u6253\u5fc3\u4f1a\u75db \u6240\u4ee5 \u5fcd\u75db\u4e0a\u9635[\u5077\u7b11]<br \/>\n\u80fd\u591f\u8fdb\u51b3\u8d5b \u72e0\u9ad8\u5174&#x263a;&#xfe0f;<br \/>\n\u8981\u6c42\u4e0d\u9ad8\u65f6\u65f6\u5f00\u5fc3 [\u5472\u7259]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f60a; made into my very first pickleball playoff: 16 players in seven rounds. I won 29 points (winning team awards the difference of the two scores; losing team receives 0). In the play off &#8211; the 8th round, three big boys took &#x1f947;, silver and bronze medal &#x1f949; \u2026 little Irene left empty hand &#x1f602; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pickleball-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45353","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=45353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}