{"id":903,"date":"2007-09-27T16:26:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T20:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/2007\/09\/27\/sammys-arsenal\/"},"modified":"2011-12-25T01:12:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T01:12:25","slug":"sammys-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"Sammy’s arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cimg9082-2.JPG\"<\/a>From China with love.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Babolat (Nitro), a French brand but made in China: inconspicuous stylish and exquisitely made.\u00a0 Sammy is a hot head in finding the thing<\/em>, “You can’t find this one in Hong Kong.\u00a0 I had to ask a friend of friend who got\u00a0it for me\u00a0in China.”\u00a0 700 RMB, about US$100.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\"cimg9085.JPG\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>A pair of fake. <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>‘How can you tell?’\u00a0 Easy, YY doesn’t even produce this model.\u00a0 Oh, the Chinese just made this up and paste YY on it?\u00a0 Sammy gave me\u00a0the look, ‘dumb question.\u00a0 They counterfeit everything ..’ \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 it’s dumb, I was just thinking out loud without going thou my brain. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0 Are there any counterfeit tennis racquets??<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>\"cimg9086.JPG\"<\/a><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>A couple of\u00a0real thing<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>‘Paragon sells for about\u00a0$250-$350.\u00a0 I bought them in HK for half the price.’\u00a0 His fat blue bag has tons of goodies.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>He likes to have us try his new toy.\u00a0 Jordan loves to, even uses his during the competition.\u00a0 He offered me the Babolat yesterday.\u00a0 It felt good and I\u00a0loved the look.\u00a0 He gave me the usual dirt look: omg, she missed the point again.. \ud83d\ude42 ..\u00a0 I haven’t been to his club in Chinatown for a long time.\u00a0 Now that summer is almost over, he told me that the club meets on Mondays and Fridays.\u00a0 I’ll go, except the parking is bit hard.\u00a0 One less incentive was\u00a0he likes to drag us to the \u6e2f\u5f0f\u897f\u9910<\/font><\/span>, the HK style of Western food eatery.\u00a0 Sammy, can we pls have dinner at the real places, like either Chinese (since we’re in Chinatown) or Italian (little Italy is just around the corner) .. he’d gave me the dirt look, :).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From China with love.\u00a0 Babolat (Nitro), a French brand but made in China: inconspicuous stylish and exquisitely made.\u00a0 Sammy is a hot head in finding the thing, “You can’t find this one in Hong Kong.\u00a0 I had to ask a friend of friend who got\u00a0it for me\u00a0in China.”\u00a0 700 RMB, about US$100.\u00a0 A pair of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badminton","category-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}