{"id":46637,"date":"2025-02-26T01:33:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T01:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46637"},"modified":"2025-03-05T20:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T20:49:05","slug":"2-no-i-in-a-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46637","title":{"rendered":"#2: No &#8216;I&#8217; in a team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DateStamper_2328-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-46639 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DateStamper_2328-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Our 2nd game of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46597\">the MLP<\/a>, defeating DD 2-1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3476-scaled.jpg\">Bracket B scores<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I watched a few pickleball videos on Youtube, and learnt that the serving hand should be lower than the paddle when serving: a new concept. So essentially, I served with my paddle vertical for the first time. Luckily, I&#8217;ve no double fault.<\/p>\n<p>Round 1 of the A bracket is 2:1 and R2 4:2.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#pickleball\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wBMBe8C1VCU?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>My B bracket is 2:1.\u00a0I&#8217;ve the same teammate, to play mixed doubles and \u00a0doubles:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>w\/ Carlos v Ronni &amp; Jerry (sub): 25:20<\/li>\n<li>w\/ Karlina v Amy &amp; Linie: 14:25<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>My court&#8217;s loss was erased by two other courts&#8217; win.<\/p>\n<p>One of the rules is, at 24, you&#8217;ve to serve out to win the 25. We were leading 24 to 15 and lost the last 5 points. Ehrrrr &#8230; the player on the right hand side will be serving at 24, which was me &#8211; my bad. So think about it before taking sides with your partner.<\/p>\n<p>Two partners have very different outlook for this MLP. The more experienced plays with strategy and shoulder more shots, which I happily to concede.<\/p>\n<p>But the lesser experienced one won&#8217;t do. Like the last match, the opponents hit all the ball to my P. I could have returned many of them but the partner won&#8217;t let me. Perhaps the player felt slight or what? In a team, there is NO &#8216;I&#8217;. I want to win.<\/p>\n<p>The second game, one of the two girls said to me, &#8220;Oh Irene, thank you for applauding my shots.&#8221; I was bit startled: gosh, where were they from? This is very common courtesy and I offer it freely to all, especially my opponents. Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>My teammate reminded me that I need to stay out when my partner serves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#pickleball #mensdoubles\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HZpF_Lw2cfs?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our 2nd game of the MLP, defeating DD 2-1 Bracket B scores. I watched a few pickleball videos on Youtube, and learnt that the serving hand should be lower than the paddle when serving: a new concept. So essentially, I served with my paddle vertical for the first time. Luckily, I&#8217;ve no double fault. Round [&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-46637","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\/46637","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=46637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}