{"id":522,"date":"2007-06-25T22:17:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T02:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/2007\/06\/25\/first-match\/"},"modified":"2007-06-25T22:17:18","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T02:17:18","slug":"first-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"Her first match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"130\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/cimg4521.JPG\" hspace=\"8\" alt=\"cimg4521.JPG\" height=\"100\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\">Slowpoke played her first match.\u00a0 When I went to fetch her, arriving at 3:45pm, she&#8217;s serving for the match at 5:4, took\u00a0first set with ease, 6:3.\u00a0 Then the momentum changed &#8211; was I the curse?\u00a0 The other\u00a0girl started giving\u00a0bad line calls .. and took\u00a0the 2nd set at 6:4; and the 3rd at 6:3.\u00a0 Both girls were exhausted.\u00a0 They began the day\u00a0at 9am,\u00a0finished the last point at 4:47pm.\u00a0 I was surprised at how few double faults did she have.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\">It&#8217;s tough one hour for me,\u00a0watching your kid losing, especially\u00a0when she should have won.\u00a0 I sat motionless, but did find faults with the other girl, few calls were clearly wrong.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s the experience Slowpoke has to learn, if she wants to play: part of the game.\u00a0 Obviously she doesn&#8217;t have the mental strength the other girl has.\u00a0 I know how intimidating to be out there alone, facing a friend or foe.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\">The lunch was awful, according to her,\u00a0(One other friend said other wise, lol ) &#8220;just some junk food, hot dogs, burgers ..&#8221;\u00a0 Any pasta?\u00a0 Yes there&#8217;s pasta, but tastes terrible&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slowpoke played her first match.\u00a0 When I went to fetch her, arriving at 3:45pm, she&#8217;s serving for the match at 5:4, took\u00a0first set with ease, 6:3.\u00a0 Then the momentum changed &#8211; was I the curse?\u00a0 The other\u00a0girl started giving\u00a0bad line calls .. and took\u00a0the 2nd set at 6:4; and the 3rd at 6:3.\u00a0 Both girls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saga","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}