{"id":587,"date":"2007-07-13T23:45:55","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T03:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/2007\/07\/13\/a-big-win\/"},"modified":"2015-01-25T21:50:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T21:50:15","slug":"a-big-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"A big win and a big hairdo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as I got on the court, I was tired.\u00a0 My wrists are very sore, my legs weight ton.\u00a0 Mark and I were warming up, my shots were everywhere but the court; then Irene L and\u00a0Wah came.\u00a0 I teamed up with Wah and had 4:0 lead when Wah decided that\u00a0he&#8217;ll play with IL.<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea how\u00a0did I run.\u00a0 But I did.\u00a0\u00a0 I had plenty mishits, and more than couple of double faults (grrrrrrrrrr),\u00a0but Mark and I\u00a0pushed them into tie break, eventually lost 7:5.\u00a0 The 2nd set we won convincingly at 6:2.\u00a0 I was more than pleased, for Wah plays on 4.0 league at USTA and\u00a0IL&#8217;s forehand is formidable; her volley is good too.\u00a0\u00a0Because I was so tired,\u00a0so I used my brain to think\u00a0a bit, \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 lots of lobs and overhead,\u00a0and most of them were great.\u00a0 Am I going to continuously play with my brain?\u00a0 Hell, no, :)) .. I make everyone else look smart, :).<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Andy tried to change my ground stroke (was hard!), and made comment\u00a0about my\u00a0persistence in staying at no man zone:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you play with 3.5 or lower, you could win by staying\u00a0there, since\u00a0they can&#8217;t hit deep anyway &#8230; but when you play with us, you&#8217;ve got to change.\u00a0 We hit\u00a0harder and deeper .. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That really makes sense.\u00a0 Not that I&#8217;m trying to make an excuse for my\u00a0lousy habit, just very glad to\u00a0hear some pointers\u00a0that&#8217;ll stick to my mind.\u00a0\u00a0Hey, mister, got medicine for my grunt??\u00a0\u00a0During a change over, Mark commented that Wah treats her well.\u00a0 I agree.\u00a0 I\u00a0got the feeling that&#8217;s they against the rest of the world, which bound them together.<\/p>\n<p>My greying hair must bother Mark very much, he lobbied me to\u00a0dye\/colour again. He&#8217;s been at it\u00a0ever since we met couple of years ago. You&#8217;d think he owns a hair salon.\u00a0 Hell, no, :), at least not yet. Sorry Mark, \u5973\u4eba\u56db\u5341\u70c2\u8336\u6e23\u00a0 isn&#8217;t that right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wenxuecity.com\/myblog\/66889\/201501\/29890.html\">wenxue<\/a> \u7537\u5973\u4e4b\u95f4\u7684\u90a3\u70b9\u4e8b  (2015-01-25 13:42:39) and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sina.com.cn\/s\/blog_4c74f8490102vdwp.html\">Sina<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as I got on the court, I was tired.\u00a0 My wrists are very sore, my legs weight ton.\u00a0 Mark and I were warming up, my shots were everywhere but the court; then Irene L and\u00a0Wah came.\u00a0 I teamed up with Wah and had 4:0 lead when Wah decided that\u00a0he&#8217;ll play with IL. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","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\/587","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=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}