{"id":47751,"date":"2026-06-04T23:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47751"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:28:51","slug":"9-deuces-and-0-40-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47751","title":{"rendered":"9 deuces, and 0-40 down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=37648\">What a comeback<\/a> &#8211; however small!<\/p>\n<p>Serving second in the set, promptly went down to 0-40. Then, one point at a time, I got to duece.<\/p>\n<p>9 of them!<\/p>\n<p>Clinching the win was such a joy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6661.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-47752 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6661-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve not been playing since the Douro River trip. Today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45246\">I served well<\/a>. The feedback:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>The good news<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>1. You are reaching a true trophy position<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>* In frames 2\u20134, your tossing arm is up and your hitting elbow is separated from your body.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>* Your shoulders are tilted nicely.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>* You are not serving with a pancake motion from the start.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>2. The racket drop is real<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>* By frame 5, the racket head is dropping behind your back.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>* That\u2019s something a severe waiter\u2019s tray serve cannot do.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>6-3, 7-3<br \/>\n\u2026 from 0-40 down to 9 deuces and won<\/p>\n<p>9\u4e2a\u5e73\u5206 [\u767d\u773c] \u8d62\u7684\u8270\u96be<\/p>\n<p>\u6211\u7684\u7b2c\u4e00\u4e2a\u53d1\u7403\u5c40\u2014\u2014\u4e5f\u5c31\u662f\u8fd9\u4e00\u76d8\u7684\u7b2c\u4e8c\u5c40\u2014\u2014\u7adf\u7136\u4ece0\u6bd440\u843d\u540e,\u4e00\u8def\u6253\u51fa\u4e869\u6b21\u5e73\u5206! \u4e8c\u4e2a\u7537\u5a03 \u6765\u52bf\u6c79\u6c79 \u6700\u7ec8\u8d62 \u7d2f\u6b7b\u5927\u5988\u4e86<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a comeback &#8211; however small! Serving second in the set, promptly went down to 0-40. Then, one point at a time, I got to duece. 9 of them! Clinching the win was such a joy. I&#8217;ve not been playing since the Douro River trip. Today I served well. The feedback: The good news 1. [&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-47751","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\/47751","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=47751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}