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Wednesday I had group lessons with my coach and there's a player that I often a little tension with. I like to conserve my energy for the multi-ball drills and the footwork drills, and we got to a point where (there were 3 of us) coach doing multiballs with one player and the other 2 on another table practicing games. This player gets very frustrated with me because he's seen how I play people when I'm trying hard. The balls I was giving him were pretty weak, just returning it, sometimes high, knowing he struggles with highballs, as well as not giving him my real serves. He got pretty livid and I didn't tell him it was to conserve energy. I told him I play everyone differently and this is the kind of stuff that works on him. If it didn't work I would be trying something different.
So long story short after a bit of argument over facebook messenger later that night, he tells me that I think I'm a lot better than I am, and that on Saturday (today) he's going to bring some players from work who will kick my butt and put me in my place. I thought this was a pretty funny accusation since I consider myself only 1600-1700 level. Just a balanced player. I sometimes have good days where I play above my level, and sometimes I play at my level. (I only feel like I play below my level if I'm planning on the loss working on something in games that I wouldn't I'f I were truly trying to win.)
Lucky for me, I'm still peaking. Today I played his work friends... they were 1800'someting and 1950'something. I beat both of the 3-0 whilst not trying in a way that I would consider trying very hard.. The better of the players said "he's definitely legit, pretty even on both wings, I couldn't find a weakness".
I still think these players a better than me, maybe I had a good day and they had a bad day. Maybe it was just a matchup. But I think it finally got this guy to stop saying arguing with the way I play with him. Especially once he saw how I played each of these players so differently from each other.
You're probably overestimating them if you think they're better than you. They claimed they couldn't find a weakness, when you and me both know that you definitely have some. You also beat them in multiple games, winning 3-0.
I'm interested in where you got the ranks: did you evaluate them or do they have ranks? Technique is a pretty solid indicator of general level, but you can look pretty good yet be a bad player. The inverse is true as well.