{"id":47273,"date":"2025-12-24T20:50:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47273"},"modified":"2026-03-15T14:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:01:16","slug":"womens-doubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47273","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s doubles: the Fab4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_9001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-47277 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_9001-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blue skies on this Christmas Eve. The morning air is 55\u00b0, the water 81\u00b0, steam curling up from the swimming pool.<\/p>\n<p>~ <sup>#3<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47561\">6-1, 6-3<\/a><br \/>\n~ <sup>#2<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47278\">12.26<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I warmed up quickly in the water, then headed to the court for battle.<\/p>\n<p>After the match, I went to the pool to stretch and saw this group of birds in the sky: American white Pelicans (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47279\">Turkey Vultures over Benchmark Int&#8217;l<\/a> a few days later), and as if they&#8217;re in formation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"American White Pelicans December 24, 2025\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P2DZL5ppBAg?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>At court, it was a wonderful match, full of rallies and laughter\u2014despite losing all three sets:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8924-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-47275 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8924-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n~ w\/ Tammy, 4-6<br \/>\n~ w\/ Sandi, 3-6<br \/>\n~ w\/ Cheri, 3-6<\/p>\n<p>A few videos show that I play softly and have fewer correct forms than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46879\">during the practices<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>~ <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NaejaqB7HzA\">warming up<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43689\">forehand<\/a><br \/>\n~ <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YASqr1v0EcQ?si=yvqYMlQnlPZe9ig1\">the first game<\/a><br \/>\n~ <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8OgDT5TUSUI\">the 2nd game<\/a><br \/>\n~ <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FZz3jCJdi0k\">the 3rd game<\/a><br \/>\n~ where&#8217;s 4th game?<br \/>\n~ <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RUZ0uTTYJb0\">the 5th &#8211; a long game<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/C_8-lhUo_ko<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue skies on this Christmas Eve. The morning air is 55\u00b0, the water 81\u00b0, steam curling up from the swimming pool. ~ #3 6-1, 6-3 ~ #2 12.26 I warmed up quickly in the water, then headed to the court for battle. After the match, I went to the pool to stretch and saw this [&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-47273","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\/47273","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=47273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}