{"id":32,"date":"2004-05-24T23:33:43","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T07:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/?p=32"},"modified":"2004-05-24T23:33:43","modified_gmt":"2004-05-25T07:33:43","slug":"one-thing-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/one-thing-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"one thing at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today my hitting partner and I practiced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisdiary.com\/2004\/03\/strokes#serve\">serving<\/a> to each other for a while. I was trying to work with three things: see the ball when I hit it, bend my knees to get more pop on the serve and move back to the baseline after I serve. I wasn&#8217;t doing very well with any of these three things so I realized that I had to drop two of them. I concentrated on seeing the ball but that meant I was in a bit of trouble on a deep return because I wasn&#8217;t moving back after the serve. I had to give up worrying about that, do the best I could to get the ball back and just think about seeing the ball.<\/p>\n<p>I came back from 6-9 to win the second rally game. I&#8217;m beginning to develop the confidence that comes from consistent strokes and a consistent mental approach. I don&#8217;t panic if I&#8217;m behind, I just keep executing as best I can. If my opponent is mentally strong and is a better player, I will probably lose but I know I will have played as well as I can.<\/p>\n<p><em>Practice and Competition Report<\/em>: hit with M. for 2 hrs., we played 2 rally games: 15-12, 15-13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my hitting partner and I practiced serving to each other for a while. I was trying to work with three things: see the ball when I hit it, bend my knees to get more pop on the serve and move back to the baseline after I serve. I wasn&#8217;t doing very well with any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-mechanics","category-tennis-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}