{"id":4716,"date":"2023-09-18T11:52:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T18:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/?p=4716"},"modified":"2023-09-18T11:52:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T18:52:49","slug":"service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/2023\/09\/service\/","title":{"rendered":"Service!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First off, kudos once again to PLAAY Games for a quick delivery (ordered Wednesday, arrived Monday) of their newly released printed edition of Let&#8217;s PLAAY Tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Great service!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4717\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lpt_2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lpt_2023.jpg 960w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lpt_2023-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lpt_2023-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lpt_2023-2x1.jpg 2w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lpt_2023-700x394.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I snagged a print-and play copy during their 2022 holiday sale, and fumbled my way through a couple of sets to learn now to play, but once I heard that they were going to release a full blown printed version I set aside the print and play and waited for this release.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis and golf are both games I grew up watching on TV.<\/p>\n<p>After Mom passed away I stopped watching regularly, maybe stopping on a match while channel surfing if someone I recognized was playing.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it got to a point where the Williams sisters were the only ones I recognized.<\/p>\n<p>Same happened with golf after Dad passed away, to a lesser degree, but that&#8217;s another story.<\/p>\n<p>I had been playing table top golf on and off for about 10 years, after my brother sent me a copy of ASG Golf, and then getting my own copies of APBA Golf and PLAAY&#8217;s History Maker Golf.<\/p>\n<p>For tennis, I had a different print-and-play tennis game about 8 years ago (Diggin&#8217; Deep Tennis), but never managed to get it out on my tabletop to play.<\/p>\n<p>Flash forward to this morning, and the arrival of this new tennis game, and I&#8217;m already excited about playing it.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Tony has requested a few match ups, and I had one of my own that I planned to play.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4718\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lpt_matchups-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lpt_matchups-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lpt_matchups-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lpt_matchups-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lpt_matchups-2x1.jpg 2w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lpt_matchups-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lpt_matchups.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Chang was a guy I remember rooting for back in college, though Arthur Ashe I barely remember seeing.<\/p>\n<p>But flipping through the rest of the All-Time Great player cards a while ago just made me go though a rather nostalgic trip, remembering seeing a lot of those names on TV from grade school through college.<\/p>\n<p>Really looking forward to playing this game soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, kudos once again to PLAAY Games for a quick delivery (ordered Wednesday, arrived Monday) of their newly released printed edition of Let&#8217;s PLAAY Tennis. 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