{"id":47390,"date":"2026-02-24T02:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47390"},"modified":"2026-02-25T02:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:33:56","slug":"5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47390","title":{"rendered":"Ladder league #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Week 5 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47359\">the Ladder League<\/a>: the last week before the playoffs off in March: I lost all my 3 sets.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/31-20e3.svg\" alt=\"1&#xfe0f;&#x20e3;\" \/> w\/ Candi 6-15<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/32-20e3.svg\" alt=\"2&#xfe0f;&#x20e3;\" \/> w\/ Lori 12-15<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/33-20e3.svg\" alt=\"3&#xfe0f;&#x20e3;\" \/> w\/ Eoin 13-15<\/p>\n<p>We started on Court #2 and moved to Crout #8 after the first set.<\/p>\n<p>The 2nd set, Candi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43888\">called my good shot to her left<\/a>, out, and we lost 12-15.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time I used bouncing serve and did well: made every serve. However, I did poorly elsewhere, came in last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2805.jpg\">with 31 points<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2789.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2789-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2790.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2790-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2791.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2791-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; in play<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2799-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2799-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2792-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47483\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2792-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2795-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2795-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2801-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2801-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2802-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2802-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2804.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2804-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; the new serve<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#pickleball #serve my 1st time bouncing\" width=\"405\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pytYluBZeSc?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>Week 5 of the Ladder League: the last week before the playoffs off in March: I lost all my 3 sets. w\/ Candi 6-15 w\/ Lori 12-15 w\/ Eoin 13-15 We started on Court #2 and moved to Crout #8 after the first set. The 2nd set, Candi called my good shot to her left, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pickleball-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47390","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=47390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}