{"id":690,"date":"2007-08-15T17:01:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T21:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/2007\/08\/15\/rogers-cup\/"},"modified":"2007-08-15T17:01:46","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T21:01:46","slug":"rogers-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"Rogers Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great day here in Toronto so far: had dim sum in Chinatown (so so), but then found a marvelous dumpling house on Spadina Av, bought 2 dozen of them.\u00a0 Golfer couldn\u2019t believe it \u2013 feeding this family needs a lot of dough, :), chives and dill. Initially, I wanted to go to the dumpling house for lunch but was nixed by King. Turned out, he loved it.<\/p>\n<p>Why didn&#8217;t New York have such wonderful dumpling house? The set up is pretty neat here in Toronto &#8211; the store front has the door and two working girls making the dumplings. Passer bys could see what&#8217;s going one. A great way to advertise, for those who don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s dumplings. They taste great. ..(PS.. we ended up eating there 3x during our short stay.)<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re watching the Rogers Cup, Dubois vs Petrova. This city or country runs by Rogers. Nadia Petrova, the Amazon (in the nicest sense) had won.  She has soft hands and charges net.  For the same reason I liked the slimmed down version of Lindsay Davenport, I like her too, <\/p>\n<p>\u5317\u65b9\u7684\u61a8\u59b9  She is gigantic but very agile, with pair good looking legs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nI went to the game last night at York University.\u00a0 Nothing to write home about.\u00a0 It is certainly not as big as at New Haven, where it has Yale.\u00a0 Years ago, a sports journalist wrote about his experience as ball boy at the New Haven event for the SI.\u00a0 He recounted as an incoming Yale freshmen, serving towels hands up to others was bit humbling; the decency of Edberg and nastiness of .. what&#8217;s his name &#8230;\u00a0whose wife slapped an umpire?\u00a0 Tarogon?\u00a0\u00a0Right now, a Chinese Yan is playing the pretty Ana Ivanovic, on serve.\u00a0 The network or the camera men are\u00a0doing the felting for us,\u00a0they don&#8217;t give much face time to the girls like\u00a0Petrova or Yan (actually Yan is not that bad looking, just bit odd in form, wearing odd color sneakers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great day here in Toronto so far: had dim sum in Chinatown (so so), but then found a marvelous dumpling house on Spadina Av, bought 2 dozen of them.\u00a0 Golfer couldn\u2019t believe it \u2013 feeding this family needs a lot of dough, :), chives and dill. Initially, I wanted to go to the dumpling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","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=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}