{"id":8679,"date":"2009-06-26T10:31:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T14:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=8679"},"modified":"2009-06-26T10:31:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T14:31:08","slug":"irene-got-her-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=8679","title":{"rendered":"Irene got her man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many many years ago when the Williams sisters<\/a> just began taking over the world, once during a mixed doubles match (a rarity!!), Chris Evert<\/a> marveled at the power the sisters were dispensing.
\n“She’s over powering the men …” On both sides of the net.
\nThen she went on to say …
\n“During my time, we would just sit by the phone [till the man called for a mixed doubles game]; now they chose. …” I reckon the male players are flattered?
\nYou go girls.
\nGirls Rule <\/p>\n

IF anyone care to remember that Irene had, [pls note: past tense] a grand ambition, to reach the level 4.0. As being Irene, I have to say it’s not going to happen, any time soon. One I’m aging and two I’m lazy … let’s just hope that she obtains the 3.0 first.<\/p>\n

So, tomorrow is our summer tennis tourney<\/a> with 4 divisions:
\nMixed Doubles
\nMen’s Doubles 3.0
\nMen’s Doubles 3.5
\nMen’s Doubles 4.0
\nAnd the committee decided to limit a player to only one event for easy court management.
\nSo I figure IF I asked a guy to play with me, he’ll miss the real fun and challenge with the boys.
\nSo I decided not to participate.
\nSeeing the registration getting a slow start, more warm bodies are needed, Irene felt obligated to help out. Ya right.
\nSO, no man called even I sat by the phone day and night.
\nSO, I called.
\nRob: \u201cSorry my back hurt.\u201d
\nKenneth: \u201cMy leg hurt.\u201d Guess I am no Barbie.
\nBill: \u201cSorry \u2026 \u201c he’s hinding out in Europe.
\nSome popular woman here.
\nSome thick skinned woman here.<\/p>\n

This morning I just found out that I\u2019m in an arranged union. With Tom.
\nTom.
\nThe acer Tom?
\nThe Tommy who has the meanest back hand?
\nThe 6\u20195\u201d Thomas who nails every single shot?
\nIt turned out, the daddy Tom, father of a movie star.
\nDoes Dad Tom even own a tennis racket? Sure the committee just wants my money \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I first met him 5 years ago at a friend\u2019s wedding. Then recently we reconnected at a dinner with mutual friends, the tennis buddies. I sat next to him.
\nAfter greeting and intro, he insisted that
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve met before.\u201d
\nOk, whatev. I had no recollection at all.
\nHalfway though the dinner some one mentioned his star daughter, Lucy Liu, then a light bulb turned on.
\nHe\u2019s a sweet gent who always chats me up whenever we meet.
\nBut tennis?
\nHey, it might turn out that he\u2019s as good as any other guy who carries Irene through the match.
\nWhat does Irene know? It\u2019s a pure miracle that I manage to remember my name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many many years ago when the Williams sisters just began taking over the world, once during a mixed doubles match (a rarity!!), Chris Evert marveled at the power the sisters were dispensing. “She’s over powering the men …” On both sides of the net. Then she went on to say … “During my time, we […]<\/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-8679","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\/8679","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=8679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}