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Honestly, respect totally agree. If it's a fun knockabout and it impacts on enjoyment of the members who are enjoying a recreational game. Tricky. If playing serious competition... Its having to adapt or lose. Personally try and adapt, work the problem and find a way to try and win. Pips, anti...

Definitely if it's a hard, ugly game of not knowing the balls spin and not being able to get past the variations caused its no fun. Same with defence. It can be like banging your head against a wall repeatedly. Once there's an executed plan things definitely become easier.

Understandabe 👍 everyone want's to improve. Good knocks, drilling and training partners can be tricky at that standard let alone putting in the curve ball of different rubbers as well. Fair play.

If you don't mind me asking.. Around what kind of level do you play? Isn't it good to learn to combat these styles?

lower level players will struggle against different unexpected equipment with unexpected results than they are used to with smooth rubber. There's little point of reference for them unfortunately. Like trying to understand a foreign language they've never heard. .More experienced players will...

If there's a gulf in standard totally agree. It's like getting in the sparring ring with a pro boxer who goes flat out. Being very high level like top 5 in the country or ex 150 in the world. No one is going to want to play against that level unrestricted. Everyone in the hall is going down...

Chen Zhibin got to be up there for pure power/speed. Bit of a throwback mind.

I'll get a couple of players to come along and also have a crack myself hopefully. There is beer involved ..... ? Cheers

Anybody know the rankings of these 2 players? Fair play if this is another real upset. If it's a case of better ranked player beats lower ranked player. Isn't it an expected win?. Edit... Around Top 50 player looks to have beaten top 135 player.. Surely expected win in the final? Reading...

Tricky match for you. If it's OK to ask... What was your game plan?. How do you feel you executed it? What could you improve in things like returning serve, backhand open ups or backhand returns, ball placement and your movement etc. Also maybe your return of serve position.

Great achievement at any age to be fair. Even more so at 60. Unfortunately it's the very minority of players who can compete at this level at this age. Its a true testimonial to great play. It would be interesting to see the number of pips players overall who win events. I'm guessing it's...

Lars and Tony is a cracking match and a great choice to show off the skill needed to play HB BB. Thanks for sharing. Good to see that again.

A good starting video to look at long serves might be from Seth Pech who did a video with a Cech champions league player a while back. It'll give a pretty fair idea to work with. Take a look at the timestamp for kick service. Links below. Cheers

Another one of the great combination attacking players in the day who played for England was Carl Prean. Amazing hands and reached a high world ranking. If people aren't aware look him up. Carl was one of the very very few to be able to play like this at a world level. The issue is it's a very...

Is this the norm or the exception of a LP player?. I would think the exception.

Agreed NL. The other issues could be producing the speed off the LP to stop a counter Not trying to hijack this thread with another how easy pips are to play with and how hard they are to play again btw. Hoping OP finds and develops the backhand. Be good to see.

I think the key here is low backspin in the previous comment to be honest and creating arc off that low backspin ball to get it over the net. The next ball has to be a lift as it will be below net height which leaves an opening for that stronger topspin.

There will always be an inherent weakness with LP/Anti among the masses. That's why numbers of users is not high at the lower and higher levels. Out of experience playing I've definitely found LP/Anti players at BL/ County in the UK/Europe to be very few and far between. Especially when...

Definitely progress with working on your backhand topspin. The time you spend on improving it will be beneficial in the long run I'd hope. You have on paper a nice rounded game. With the introduction of an extra backhand stroke(s) things will hopefully gel and you will be able to play the game...

Variation is king to unsettle the player. Get them to move and keep them off balance as much as you can. Once these players get into a rhythm it’s pretty hard to claw things back. Worst it’s easy to lose a lot of points quickly. Others have said it’s about sometimes getting the ball back on the...