{"id":47338,"date":"2026-01-17T17:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47338"},"modified":"2026-01-19T03:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:32:11","slug":"a-heavy-dose-of-serves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47338","title":{"rendered":"A heavy dose of serves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0535.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-47342 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0535-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0535-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0535-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0535-768x770.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0535.jpg 981w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>A busy morning: warmup, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46879\">sling<\/a>, a heavy-duty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45246\">serve session<\/a> on Court 1, then played a set with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47081\">the coach<\/a>, winning 6-1 over Dave L and Aaron on Court 2. The only ame we lost was from my overhead, when the coach called &#8220;don&#8217;t touch&#8221; but I still hit it: totally my fault!<\/p>\n<p>Dave \/ coach won over Edwin \/ Aaron 1 and love. On a trip to my court to pick up a ball, C said, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you play? They complained that I&#8217;m too good, can&#8217;t they be appreciative that I&#8217;m trying to make them better?&#8221; I knew C won&#8217;t go all out when he plays with us, and I always value the time playing with or against him: it&#8217;s the best time to learn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0672.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-47343 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0672-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During a changeover, the coach showed me again how to serve, and I think this time it worked a little for me &#8211; thanks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 pretty happy with my toss<\/p>\n<p>\u8bb0\u5f97\u5317\u4eac\u6709\u4e2a\u5fc3\u91cc\u7f8e\u841d\u535c (\u4e0d\u77e5\u662f\u5317\u4eac\u751f\u8fd8\u662f\u5b83\u5730\u79cd\u8fd0\u5317\u4eac &#8211; \u4e0d\u91cd\u8981) \u4ffa\u8fd9\u4e24\u5929\u4e5f\u662f\u5fc3\u91cc\u7f8e&#x1f913;(\u867d\u8fd8\u662fwaiter\u2019s tray &#8211; got to give me some time &#x1f602;&#x1f639;)<br \/>\n\u6b63\u8bef\u5176\u6b21 \u5fc3\u91cc\u9ad8\u5174\u662f\u6b63\u9053<br \/>\n\u6628\u5929 \u6559\u7ec3\u548c\u4e09\u7537\u961f\u53cb\u5728\u9694\u58c1\u6253 6-0 6-1<br \/>\n\u6559\u4e3b\u5410\u82e6 \u201c\u6211\u662f\u5c31\u7740\u4ed6\u4eec\u6253\u7684 \u4f46\u4ed6\u4eec\u8fd8\u8bf4\u4e0d\u516c\u5e73\u2026\u201d<br \/>\n\u4ed6\u7b2c\u4e00\u6b21\u8981\u6211\u8fc7\u53bb\u6253 \u6211\u6ca1\u63a5\u832c\u513f<br \/>\n\u7b2c\u4e8c\u6b21\u662f\u56e0\u4e3a\u4e00\u7537\u79bb\u5f00<br \/>\n\u4ed6\u548c\u4ffa \u2026 6-1<br \/>\n\u2026 \u90a3\u4e2a1 \u662f\u4ffa\u8f93\u7684<br \/>\n\u4e00\u9ad8\u7403 \u6559\u4e3b\u8bf4 \u522b\u78b0 \u2026 \u4ffa\u504f\u504f\u6253: \u8bf4\u4e0d\u6e05\u662f\u4ffa\u8822 \u8fd8\u662f\u4e0d\u60f3\u7ed9\u4ed6\u4eec\u9e21\u86cb<\/p>\n<p>\u5176\u5b9e\u548c\u6559\u7ec3\u6253\u662f\u96be\u5f97\u7684\u673a\u4f1a<br \/>\n\u4eba\u5404\u6709\u5fd7<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/bpGcMP2HxHQ?feature=share\">warm-up<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/XYmT2kNL78w?feature=share\">returning<\/a> &#8211; forehand &amp; backhand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/2wMkco8DnQI<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A busy morning: warmup, sling, a heavy-duty serve session on Court 1, then played a set with the coach, winning 6-1 over Dave L and Aaron on Court 2. The only ame we lost was from my overhead, when the coach called &#8220;don&#8217;t touch&#8221; but I still hit it: totally my fault! Dave \/ coach [&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-47338","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\/47338","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=47338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}