Pips (and I mean long pips) players are all different, you have to play them a lot to get used to reading the ball and the stroke.
Darn you NextLevel! You beat me to this. Once again you say what I was going to, before I get there. You have to wake up early in the morning to beat NextLevel to the punch! Hahahaha.
One of the things about playing, the more you play and train vs different players and styles the more creative and adaptable to whatever you are facing you will become. If you use anything in a match, stuff that works for free, easy points early will get you roasted later in the match if you are up against a good player. So your tactics need to change based on things you figure out about the other player during a match.
There is no real fix but to play against long pips players. NextLevel's suggestion of playing against pips players who are not as good as you to get used to the pips is a great idea because it is hard to find pips players who train.
But if you can find a good or higher rated pips player who is willing to train with you, that is great also. I was lucky to have that situation when I first started learning to play and it was two guys who were both way better than me who were as happy to train as to play matches. And they both used their pips and played very differently from each other.
If you are mostly playing matches vs pips players, it is worth not worrying about winning and losing so you can just be creative and try a bunch of different things. Over time you get to start knowing what is coming back at you if you use playing against a pips player as an experiment rather than being focused on the end result.
One last thing to note: if you are playing a pips player and keep on losing to him/her, the player is better than you! Even if you think that is not true, if the results show that they keep winning, they are doing something better than you. But the difference might not be as big as the score either.
It takes skill to use pips and if you make awesome, cool loops loaded with topspin and those shots keep coming back low and short, that is not easy to do and takes a lot of skill. If you are not ready for what comes back, that means you need to improve on that. If you beat yourself and they are just putting the ball on the table, then that shows you what you need to work on too.
One thing I have found is, to be good against LP it is a huge asset to be good at the over the table game. If you can't return short balls that are low and will double bounce or come off the table at handbreaker length, then that is an essential skill to work on because the better the skill of a LP player, the more they can force you to take awkward shots. And the most awkward stuff to handle happens over the table.
Also, as NextLevel has already pointed out, if you have a 50/50 shot (or better) against a pips player who is the same basic level as you, then you are pretty good vs long pips.
There will always be pips players who are lower level than you and there will always be pips players who are higher level than you (unless your name is ______[supply the name of your favorite CNT player]). But if you adapt to the pips well and still lose to a higher level player who uses pips, all it shows is that you lost to a higher level player.
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