says
2023 Certified Organ Donor
says
2023 Certified Organ Donor
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I can cope very well with many 1900-2100 level players by simply pushing the majority of their serves. if you push right off the bounce and can very your touch from short receive to fast/deep and spinny, you will handcuff a lot of attack-happy players. You attack some of the serves with a flip, a few of the long ones away from them, and vary your push on the rest.
Carl saw me play vs Master Chen like this not taking much risk on receive, except for my aggressive BH flip returns, which are not really all that risky if I step into position and look over the ball, the rest falls into place well enough.
I think I only attacked 1/4 of Master Chen's serves total. I pushed with the plan to have him step around the BH corner and be a bit off balance to give him only one lane to attack, then be ready to fast block away from him or his crossover and send him to the races. Even if I lost a point here or there blocking, it was worth it watching the master huff and puff to get to those balls to continue the attack.
I agree in essence with the spirit of attack all long serves, sometimes, it is simply good sense to use the Shock and Awe style of attack first and keep opponent in shock and off balance preventing them from really getting going with their good offensive attacks.
That is how Carl and I played doubles in the Korean club that last time. I BH attacked just about EVERY serve, short or not. When I got them good and concerned, I could get away with a fast deep push to set Carl up for a heavy topspsin. We set each other up for a long underspin 3rd ball, and attacked just about 100% of them (with very high landing rate and lots of winners or blocked balls for smash chances).
Carl saw me play vs Master Chen like this not taking much risk on receive, except for my aggressive BH flip returns, which are not really all that risky if I step into position and look over the ball, the rest falls into place well enough.
I think I only attacked 1/4 of Master Chen's serves total. I pushed with the plan to have him step around the BH corner and be a bit off balance to give him only one lane to attack, then be ready to fast block away from him or his crossover and send him to the races. Even if I lost a point here or there blocking, it was worth it watching the master huff and puff to get to those balls to continue the attack.
I agree in essence with the spirit of attack all long serves, sometimes, it is simply good sense to use the Shock and Awe style of attack first and keep opponent in shock and off balance preventing them from really getting going with their good offensive attacks.
That is how Carl and I played doubles in the Korean club that last time. I BH attacked just about EVERY serve, short or not. When I got them good and concerned, I could get away with a fast deep push to set Carl up for a heavy topspsin. We set each other up for a long underspin 3rd ball, and attacked just about 100% of them (with very high landing rate and lots of winners or blocked balls for smash chances).