{"id":46258,"date":"2024-05-23T17:08:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T17:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46258"},"modified":"2024-05-23T17:21:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T17:21:58","slug":"the-back-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46258","title":{"rendered":"The backhand: keep left arm straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keep your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=165\">left arm straight<\/a> &#8211; one school says so. Mine, apparently is not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_9010.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_9010-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DateStamper_0845-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DateStamper_0845-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_9008.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_9008-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gary who was late, Hope who saved the day by coming, Matt and I played in peace: the two pickleball courts next to our Court #5 are empty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45246\">serves<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"May 23, 2024\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jU29HgCegsY?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; a long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46240\">warm up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#tennis #warmup\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m9g4170Z9do?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep your left arm straight &#8211; one school says so. Mine, apparently is not. \u00a0 Gary who was late, Hope who saved the day by coming, Matt and I played in peace: the two pickleball courts next to our Court #5 are empty. &#8230; two serves &nbsp; &#8230; a long warm up &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46258","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=46258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}