{"id":45934,"date":"2023-12-12T00:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45934"},"modified":"2023-12-14T23:46:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T23:46:52","slug":"the-last-of-the-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45934","title":{"rendered":"The last of the five matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DateStamper_1507-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45935 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DateStamper_1507-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><sup>It&#8217;s a 50\u00b0 day, perfect for a warm drink: my bean-milk<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>So, we played the last game of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45837\">five week long team tourney<\/a>: we won 3 out of eight, failing to be the spoiler, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>One match, our mates got cheated with bad line call, detail will follow.<\/p>\n<p>Some mates played three matches while I played only two:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>w\/ Dave, vs Beth n Melanie: 11-4<\/li>\n<li>w\/ Bev, vs Beth n Melanie: 7-11<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>With Dave, at 6, we forgot to switch. I won the next point, at 7:3:2. After switching side, I said, &#8220;let&#8217;s start from 6 &#8230;&#8221; We played it out and won 11-4. After it done, my partner pulled me aside, said, &#8220;never again to give a point away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What if they disagree?&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let me deal with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; I understand his point of view, totally. But this is a neighborly tourney .. oh well. I don&#8217;t have killer instinct. Silly me.<\/p>\n<p>Both matches went well. However, Linda&#8217;s match was marred with bad line calls.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, I went to swim. The water temperature is 76\u00b0: couldn&#8217;t be better!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a 50\u00b0 day, perfect for a warm drink: my bean-milk So, we played the last game of the five week long team tourney: we won 3 out of eight, failing to be the spoiler, unfortunately. One match, our mates got cheated with bad line call, detail will follow. Some mates played three matches while [&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-45934","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\/45934","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=45934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}