Thanks! I am playing only for a year and my opponent is U15 Nr.20 in Turkey. BTW I need to attack without fear isn't it?
Well, it is more than that.
Some of your problem with attacking within the rallies, after your opponent has taken the initiative in the rally, is that you are not resetting fast enough which may also be why you tend to back up. It gives you time to at least make some shots when you are not in position to take the shot you want. The trouble with that is, taking a weak shot with a half stroke that just puts the ball back in play will get you in trouble against a player who is able to punish those weak shots.
So, I think you may be asking about something that has more to do with you going on defense and having a slightly slow reset and therefore just not even being set to take a good stroke at the ball. If that is the case, then of course you cannot attack aggressively and have confidence in the attacks. You are consistently on the defensive and not quite ready for what is coming at you.
Over time developing the skills of counterlooping your opponent’s power shots will help your development. Sometimes you can counterloop with a very compact stroke and use your opponent’s power. So with that, it might not be so much about aggressive attacks with confidence. It may be more about effective counterlooping skills.
But when your opponent pushed, you pushed back or make a weak opening shot to put the ball in play. On those, you are ready and in position, BUT you are not attacking.
Yogi actually said it too: there are so many serves and pushes that you simply do not loop even though that is what YOU SHOULD be doing.
If you actually want to get to a higher level, you cannot be passive all the time and always let your opponent take control of the offense; and then hope you can put enough easy balls back so that the opponent messes up.
If someone serves and the serve is loopable, you need to be looping those and looping them with power (spin, pace and placement). If someone pushes, you need to be looping most of those.
And if you push, it should be a surprise because of how many of the same ball you have looped. When your opponent is getting ready for your loop to come back because of how effective your opening loop has been, then dropping the ball short on a push is much more effective because the opponent has been shown that he has to respect the spin, pace and placement for of your openings.
I guess, last detail. And this is true for you and your opponent, you guys are missing on your serves way too much. It should be much less common that your opponent gets a point outright because you didn’t even put a serve in play.
Regardless of these details, you play quite well for how long you have been training seriously. You did a good job of posting video of a match where you are playing someone who may be a little better than you. A match where you are a little better than your opponent might be good to see as well.
Keep up the hard work.
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