{"id":47156,"date":"2025-11-21T20:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47156"},"modified":"2025-11-21T23:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:43:30","slug":"friday-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47156","title":{"rendered":"Friday Clinic: 4 &amp; 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_6926.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-47158 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_6926-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47081\">Coach C<\/a> gives two clinics a week, on Mondays and Fridays. It&#8217;s a playtime with very little instruction.<\/p>\n<p>I was there a little early, and got a little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45246\">serving tip<\/a> because he saw me working on my serve for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>The racket head should stay up straight before the trophy position for a serve, which allows for a more powerful and efficient swing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_6899.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-47157 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_6899-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> Is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43689\">my forehand<\/a> correct?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=165\">The backhand<\/a>, coach says: from low to high, and no chicken arms.<\/p>\n<p>Coach and I lost two sets to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47080\">Adrian<\/a> and Greg 4-6 and 3-6. Greg is 4.0 and Adrian is 21, who can play and run. It was a good 8.0 game, except I&#8217;m too weak. Coach cheated on the score, good naturally a couple of times.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"a few points Nov 21\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NUsSfm_0iag?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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coach C gives two clinics a week, on Mondays and Fridays. It&#8217;s a playtime with very little instruction. I was there a little early, and got a little serving tip because he saw me working on my serve for a long time. The racket head should stay up straight before the trophy position for a [&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-47156","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\/47156","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=47156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}