{"id":47323,"date":"2026-01-10T19:31:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47323"},"modified":"2026-02-22T15:49:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:49:52","slug":"6-1-6-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47323","title":{"rendered":"6-1, 6-4: 2 new players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0049-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-47324 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0049-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A good match on a gorgeous day, with two new players. A half moon hung high at 9:23 in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Dave L and I won 1 and 4 against Aaron and Richard. A &amp; R have textbook form and big serves but made a few unforced errors.<\/p>\n<p>Dave and I are still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45246\">working on our serves<\/a>; we both double-faulted. By contrast, Aaron &amp; Richard&#8217;s serve made me feel particularly inadequate &#8211; very humbling, and they both have textbook forms.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>with Aaron, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47449\">6-4, 3-6<\/a><\/li>\n<li>vs Aaron, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47336\">6-2, 6-3, 6-2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; getting ready<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0088.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0088-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0083.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0083-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0076.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47328\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0076-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and more tossing<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0073.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0073-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0073-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0073-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0073-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0073-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0073.jpg 1206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0078.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0078-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0085.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0085-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the first set, Dave served at 5\u20130. At 0\u201315, Rich made a late call on Dave\u2019s second serve, calling it out. Dave then double-faulted, giving our opponents their only game.<\/p>\n<p>In the second set, they switched sides (Rich on ad side) and went up 3\u20130. We clawed back, game by game. Both their wives stopped by.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Served 2026-1-10\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oPqnxXI-6u4?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>6-1 n 6-4: \u4e8c\u4e2a\u65b0\u9762\u5b54. 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A &amp; R have textbook form and big serves but made a few unforced errors. Dave and I are still working on [&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-47323","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\/47323","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=47323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}