{"id":46937,"date":"2025-08-20T22:49:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46937"},"modified":"2025-08-20T22:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:51:13","slug":"the-shrimp-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46937","title":{"rendered":"The shrimp player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DateStamper_4393.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-46938 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DateStamper_4393-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Today, our next court has six <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">elderly men<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> who rotate. One of them has a severe hunchback. This photo showed him in a better posture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Two thoughts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">I admire him and them for still getting out there and hitting the balls: would I be still playing at his age? Hopefully!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Two, I had played against a solid 4.0 player who served like shrimp but had a straight back; who looks like PhD comedian Joe Wong (\u9ec4\u897f,\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Wong_(comedian)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">1970<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">-): skinny, glasses, poker face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ok, to my tennis:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>w\/ Punni, 0-5<\/li>\n<li>w\/ Matt, 5-1<\/li>\n<li>w\/ Cheri, 4-5<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, our next court has six elderly men who rotate. One of them has a severe hunchback. This photo showed him in a better posture. Two thoughts. I admire him and them for still getting out there and hitting the balls: would I be still playing at his age? Hopefully! Two, I had played against [&hellip;]<\/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-46937","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\/46937","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=46937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}