{"id":47009,"date":"2025-10-11T20:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47009"},"modified":"2025-10-13T23:15:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:15:31","slug":"skorts-shorts-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47009","title":{"rendered":"Skorts &amp; Shorts tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4666.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-47034 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4666-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43707\">Another pickleball tournament<\/a> features 32 players with fixed pairs in two tiers. My upgrade to level 2 is to stay.<\/p>\n<p>The rules are 10-minute timed play. At buzzer time, complete the point; if tied at the buzzer, play continues till the server wins by 1 point.<\/p>\n<p>Nick is my partner, with whom I have never played. Actually, I don&#8217;t even know that he plays. Luckily, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4668-scaled.jpg\">we managed to win 4 out of 7 games<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>v. Yan &amp; Martin: lost<\/li>\n<li>v. Joyce &amp; Carlos: won<\/li>\n<li>v. Lurline &amp; Jeff: won, came from behind 2-7 deficit<\/li>\n<li>v. Angela &amp; Bill: lost (10-11)<\/li>\n<li>v. Karen &amp; Richard: lost<\/li>\n<li>v. Donnie Ed: won<\/li>\n<li>v. Lynn Eoin: won (5-4, perhaps the lowest score)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty tied at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another pickleball tournament features 32 players with fixed pairs in two tiers. My upgrade to level 2 is to stay. The rules are 10-minute timed play. At buzzer time, complete the point; if tied at the buzzer, play continues till the server wins by 1 point. Nick is my partner, with whom I have never [&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-47009","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\/47009","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=47009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}