{"id":45507,"date":"2023-08-02T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45507"},"modified":"2023-08-04T13:28:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T13:28:40","slug":"my-2nd-grand-slam-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45507","title":{"rendered":"My 2nd grand slam of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_7466.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45508 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_7466-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44977\">I&#8217;ve been playing well<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45523\">my hands<\/a> have been generally good to great &#8211; played my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45138\">second grand slam<\/a> of the year.<\/p>\n<p>This hand I&#8217;ve 20 hpc without counting the doubleton. But it&#8217;s the doubleton&#8217;s &#x2665;&#xfe0f;4 &amp; 8 worries me &#8211; my opponents can wipe us out if they&#8217;ve strong heart suit.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the bid:<br \/>\nPass &#8211; my right<br \/>\n1NT &#8211; me<br \/>\nPass<br \/>\n2NT &#8211; my partner (Is 2&#x2665;&#xfe0f; be correct bid?)<\/p>\n<p>I could have gone to 3NT but I didn&#8217;t: we only need 10 point at this time to make the third rubber. Another reason I got a grand slam was I was diligent till the last trick.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A 2h bid means you have an actual heart suit which you do not. Your partner made improper bid of 2n , which is a very weak response. Partner has 16 points, proper response to your 1n s\/b 4c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45535\">asking for aces<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The freshly baked cake is delicious!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_7459.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45516\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_7459-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_7457-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45517\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_7457-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_7456-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_7456-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing well, and my hands have been generally good to great &#8211; played my second grand slam of the year. This hand I&#8217;ve 20 hpc without counting the doubleton. But it&#8217;s the doubleton&#8217;s &#x2665;&#xfe0f;4 &amp; 8 worries me &#8211; my opponents can wipe us out if they&#8217;ve strong heart suit. Here is the [&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-45507","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\/45507","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=45507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}