{"id":45398,"date":"2023-06-12T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45398"},"modified":"2023-06-20T17:20:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T17:20:50","slug":"a-diamond-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45398","title":{"rendered":"A diamond &#x2666;&#xfe0f; night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44977\">Last week<\/a>, my hands were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45381\">mostly hearts<\/a>, and tonight are mostly diamond\u00a0&#x2666;&#xfe0f;.<\/p>\n<p>One lesson that engraved in my mind tonight is <em>13 points for bidding<\/em> are really important.<\/p>\n<p>For example <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_6089-1.jpg\">this hand<\/a>: my partner and I both passed the initially round but when our opponent to my right bid 1&#x2666;&#xfe0f;, I followed with 1&#x2764;&#xfe0f; and the hand ended up with 3&#x2764;&#xfe0f;. \u00a0Although we&#8217;ve 9 &#x2764;&#xfe0f; (J 10 7 4 3 and my partner has &#x2764;&#xfe0f;K 9 8 6) but we don&#8217;t have &#x2764;&#xfe0f;A &amp; Q, actually we don&#8217;t have a single A &#8211; there goes 4 tricks. My lacking void or singleton put us in debt further.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_6086.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_6086-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_6087.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_6087-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_6088.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_6088-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_6090.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45403\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_6090-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_6091.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_6091-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_6092.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_6092-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u6574\u665a\u7684&#x2666;&#xfe0f;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_6089-1.jpg\">\u8fd9\u624b 3&#x2764;&#xfe0f;<\/a> \u2026 \u8f93\u7684\u6ca1\u6709\u7136\u540e\u4e86<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, my hands were mostly hearts, and tonight are mostly diamond\u00a0&#x2666;&#xfe0f;. One lesson that engraved in my mind tonight is 13 points for bidding are really important. For example this hand: my partner and I both passed the initially round but when our opponent to my right bid 1&#x2666;&#xfe0f;, I followed with 1&#x2764;&#xfe0f; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45398","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=45398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}