{"id":45891,"date":"2023-11-23T21:13:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T21:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45891"},"modified":"2023-11-24T00:54:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T00:54:04","slug":"unbelievably-bad-line-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45891","title":{"rendered":"Unbelievably bad line calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7030.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45893 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7030-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7030-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7030-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7030-1017x1024.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7030-768x773.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7030.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s the Thanksgiving Day, and I&#8217;m thankful for my family and friends and foes in my life, and an interesting life I lead so far.<\/p>\n<p>I started my day with a warm up swim, then tennis, pickleball, and capped the morning with another short swim &#8211; static stretching. I know the verdict (if the static stretching after a game is good or suitable &#8230;) is out there, and swimming is certainly NOT <em>static stretchin<\/em>g, but I like to do it, to relax.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#tennisserve #waiter&#039;stray\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qtQZodxZ4Qg?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>Tennis:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still trying to correct my serve: to keep my left tossing arm high longer and eliminate waiter&#8217;s tray (why is waiter&#8217;s tray no good?)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7015-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45895 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7015-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Two double faults in my first serve game &#8211; I didn&#8217;t practice much in between matches &#8211; my bad. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43888\">Bad line calls one after another<\/a>; one of the opponents said he can bagel me. I replied, &#8220;not off me.&#8221; I thought I was going to have a relaxed game on a holiday, but it turned out not to be the case. So I reverted back to my waiter&#8217;s tray serve. We lost 4-5, 5-3, 4-5 (first to five and 1 point decides a game &#8211; no deuce).<\/p>\n<p>Pickleball:<\/p>\n<p>Played with a new group of players. The best player (3.5 &#8211; apparently there is a rating in pb? ) in the group teamed herself up with her husband who&#8217;s equally good, vs me and one guy who&#8217;s also a newbie. The couple has been playing for more than three years. I&#8217;d think they would split up to make the game more interesting, which is the way I would have done. Oh well. We lost 2-11.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the Thanksgiving Day, and I&#8217;m thankful for my family and friends and foes in my life, and an interesting life I lead so far. I started my day with a warm up swim, then tennis, pickleball, and capped the morning with another short swim &#8211; static stretching. I know the verdict (if the static [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,44,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pickleball-","category-swimming","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45891","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=45891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}