{"id":47244,"date":"2025-12-14T20:32:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T20:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47244"},"modified":"2025-12-15T02:14:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:14:45","slug":"alone-with-the-slinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47244","title":{"rendered":"Alone with the Slinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47081\">more lessons<\/a> and clinics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46700\">I take<\/a>, the more appreciation I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46879\">for the machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My forehand pulling back looks too high; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?paged=2\">finish looks the same<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8197.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8197-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8199.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8199-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8204-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8204-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, I practice the fundmental strokes, forehand and backhand; also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47238\">overheads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Id32o32VGiI\">groundstrokes<\/a> (mostly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=165\">backhand<\/a> &amp;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43689\">forehand<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9hSPDNGSckw\">groundstrokes<\/a>\u00a0(mostly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43689\">forehand<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=165\">backhand<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/mL_wwox_6PA?feature=share\">an overhead<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UfwnnjfASKU\">two big birds: herons fly by<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Bv7id1uob1Y\">a better forehand<\/a>? right leg moves foreward<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9hSPDNGSckw\">a better serve<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/j4Wx0mxk6AE\">swing volleys<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"two big birds - herons fly by\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UfwnnjfASKU?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>The more lessons and clinics I take, the more appreciation I&#8217;ve for the machine. My forehand pulling back looks too high; the finish looks the same. \u00a0 Today, I practice the fundmental strokes, forehand and backhand; also overheads. groundstrokes (mostly backhand &amp;\u00a0forehand) groundstrokes\u00a0(mostly forehand &amp; backhand) an overhead two big birds: herons fly by 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-47244","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\/47244","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=47244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}