{"id":47339,"date":"2026-01-18T21:19:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47339"},"modified":"2026-01-19T03:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:31:27","slug":"feeling-good-about-my-serve-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47339","title":{"rendered":"Feeling good about my serve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0655.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-47341 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0655-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>For a moment, I feel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45246\">good and confident about my serve<\/a>, even still have the waiter&#8217;s tray. One step at time. One tweak at time.<\/p>\n<p>On my way to the court, saw this couple &#8211; a pair of sandyhill cranes was taking their morning stroll.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47338\">Continuing from yesterday<\/a>, I sling first, then practiced serve.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/bpGcMP2HxHQ?feature=share\">warm-up<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/XYmT2kNL78w\">fore &amp; back<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/nlqyjgx6CTM?si=VwwOiISe61NcxdLG\">2 serves<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2 serves 1-18\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nlqyjgx6CTM?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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a moment, I feel good and confident about my serve, even still have the waiter&#8217;s tray. One step at time. One tweak at time. On my way to the court, saw this couple &#8211; a pair of sandyhill cranes was taking their morning stroll. Continuing from yesterday, I sling first, then practiced serve. warm-up [&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-47339","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\/47339","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=47339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}