{"id":46964,"date":"2025-08-27T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46964"},"modified":"2025-08-29T01:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:48:16","slug":"a-hard-fought-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46964","title":{"rendered":"A hard fought win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_5207.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-46967 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_5207-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>With Randi, we won 6-3, 7-6 <em><sup>7-5<\/sup><\/em>. v Punni and Graham, who&#8217;s still in the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve an unbelievably large number of double faults, both over- and underhand. No one held their serve for the first four games in the first set. My single-handed backhand cross-court drop shot by the net won the tie break, finally, especially in light of my drop shots not working for the past few days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; lost my serve<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IMG 5196\" width=\"405\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dg0JU7TIj8Y?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>With Randi, we won 6-3, 7-6 7-5. v Punni and Graham, who&#8217;s still in the cloud. I&#8217;ve an unbelievably large number of double faults, both over- and underhand. No one held their serve for the first four games in the first set. My single-handed backhand cross-court drop shot by the net won the tie break, [&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-46964","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\/46964","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=46964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}