{"id":47063,"date":"2025-10-27T17:39:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47063"},"modified":"2025-10-27T17:41:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:41:19","slug":"quick-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47063","title":{"rendered":"2 &amp; 1, and a quick serve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not ready,&#8221; Graham said on my second serve, at 40-30, 5-2. I served another underhandedly, and he returned but was killed by my partner. Game and set.<\/p>\n<p>We won the second set easily, 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>I value fairness, so I told them. And I just don&#8217;t quick serve.<\/p>\n<p>In the pool, I thought about it: underhand serve, perhaps, is easily read as quick serve because it doesn\u2019t have the tossing, pulling back, and smacking down motions. (???)<\/p>\n<p>A 5-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46240\">warm up<\/a>: I&#8217;ve been trying to imporve my forehand, without lefting my left leg.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"October 27, 2025 warm up\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6JHhn2XuMyA?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>&#8220;I&#8217;m not ready,&#8221; Graham said on my second serve, at 40-30, 5-2. I served another underhandedly, and he returned but was killed by my partner. Game and set. We won the second set easily, 6-1. I value fairness, so I told them. And I just don&#8217;t quick serve. In the pool, I thought about it: [&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-47063","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\/47063","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=47063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}