{"id":47689,"date":"2026-04-08T15:59:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47689"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:59:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:59:28","slug":"wednesday-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47689","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_6505.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-47690 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_6505-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>An iffy drizzling weather turned into a nice morning: cool but a bit breezy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47434\">Joe and I<\/a> lost to Matt &amp; Sally 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Matt &amp; I gave a bagel: 6-0<\/p>\n<p>Sally and I won a 10-point tiebreak: 10-8<\/p>\n<p>I served first and instantly went to 0-40, then eventually lost after three duces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45246\">On serve<\/a>: I felt pretty good, making sure I was shifting weight, tossing, hoisting, and looking up.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"warm-up 4-08\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eQFgmmzllgc?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>Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47346\">the Alot league<\/a> (10\/1\/0) is battling the #2 team (9\/2\/0), which is only 2 courts behind, with 3 matches (including today&#8217;s) to go each. They&#8217;ve been keen to get me to sub, but I declined: no travel is my baseline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An iffy drizzling weather turned into a nice morning: cool but a bit breezy. Joe and I lost to Matt &amp; Sally 4-6 Matt &amp; I gave a bagel: 6-0 Sally and I won a 10-point tiebreak: 10-8 I served first and instantly went to 0-40, then eventually lost after three duces. On serve: I [&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-47689","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\/47689","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=47689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}