I try to play my play as much as possible so i get the kind of balls i have been practicing on. I do not try so many different serves, but try to do my serves where i often know where the ball is coming.
I like open game. I have pretty good blocking game and counterattack so i want to come to that kind of play. But it is very important that i do not just block, i need to move the opponent and vary the tempo so i get the advantage and can kill the ball.
I serve long alot. Fast nospin serve, often comes back with a counter or bad loop since they do not have the time to loop well. Then i try to have the racket high, counter back and move the opponent or attack the ball. If i serve to bh the ball usually comes back to the backhand, serve to fh back to fh. If i play against a backhand player i try to serve alot to the pocket since they do not go around and play forehand. Against forehand players i play more to the corners, since they want to go around in the bh and by serving to the both of the corners the have trouble going around in the bh.
If i serve long sidebackspin serve the often loop more topspin since they have more to work with, so i try to flathit that ball. If i serve long sidetopspin they often play harder with less topspin and i need to block more and work more with spin myself since it is not so much spin in the ball. If i play against players that topspin the long ball,i try to put more sidebackspin in the ball so they maybe will loop the ball in the net. If the opponent push against long balls i serve more topspin so the ball will be high. And if they start with loop, but push when i start to do sidebackspin i then start to do more sidetopspin so they do not know which ball is coming.
I also try to vary with short serves since only long serves will be to easy, they know that they are coming and will loop why to hard. The short serves will become better if i serve alot long, and the long serves will become better if i serve sometimes short. I generally do not like to get backspin against me, since i use short pips on the forehand and this ball is not good for me so i try to serve alot nospin and topsidespin short so they almost need to flip the ball. Then i need to be ready to step out and attack the ball. they can also push but the push will be pretty bad and i can also attack that ball. Only really good players can push short well on that kind of serves. If i serve sidespin to their backhand the ball often comes to the backhand, reverse sidespin to the forehand and the ball comes to forehand. If they flip alot and well, i try to serve more sidebackspin and more backspin so they will flip into the net. If the opponent try to play short alot again i try to play more topsidespin and nospin. It is important to vary the serve so they do not know what kind of serve that is coming. I also try to serve not to short. to short serves is easy to play short and flip, it is better to play them halflong.
I also try to serve so the ball will drop down near the table. Alot of players will proably topspin this soft and i will have a good opportunity to flathit the ball.
I serve with the short pimples, so i do not get crazy much spin. But i find it hard to fool the opponent on the spin with new ball, and i find it more important that i get the ball that i want. But thinking of starting serving with the inverted rubber to get more spin but have trouble at the moment to have the time to twiddle.
When i return i try to play short, then i expect a short ball back or a push so i will be maybe drop the racket down a bit and be ready to topspin. Not often players can flip good short balls. I need to vary the placement more since i often play them in the middle of the table. If the serve have topspin or sidespin i often flip since it it is difficult to play short well on those. Important to have the racket high and be ready for their attack. I try to do the banana flip more with backhand, since it is difficult to open against good short serves with the short pimple. But i have big trouble flipping with backhand in the forehand corner and have the time to recover to the backhand corner. Any tips? need to watch the chinese.
On long serves i try to topspin the ball myself, and hopefully they block back and i can try to step out a bit, have the racket high and try to play a harder attack.
When i push long backspin i often get a topspin and i try to flathit the ball. When i push nospin they often play harder and i need to be ready to block. It is good to vary the spin. If they play very flat i try to push more with backspin. The best push is when i return the ball long and fast so they have no time to do a good opening. I need to work more at this. Against really good players it is hard to push long if they attack to hard. But i have pretty good blocking so i often still can return long. But sometimes the problem is that serve long and push long and just standing there and blocking, i need to be aggressive with my blocking otherwise i can not play this way.
It can also be good to push halflong where they often play a soft topspin and i can flathit the ball.
I also trying to push with sidespin, almost like the reverse banana flip. Look at Elias ranefur, he does this good. I feel that it is sometimes is to easy for the opponent to get short or long push with nospin or backspin. throw in sidespin sometimes and they will have trouble knowing what is coming. I think that if i can do this well against their forehand the ball will proably comeback to my forehand with topspin which is good. If they have pretty weak attack i proably try to push long more and if they have a very good attack i proably try return more short.
When i push long against forehand players i try to push long in the corners, and against backhand players their pocket.
In the open game it is almost the same. If i lose in bh bh, they are better at my in that game and i try to play more against there pocket and forehand. If they are backhand players i try to put the ball more in the pocket. If i win bh bh, i try to keep the ball in bh bh. If i win in bh bh they proably have better forehand, so they will proably try to go around in the backhand corner so then i try to play alot to the corners so they will have a hard time doing this.
If they are good at attacking, it is very important to vary the placement and tempo so they do not get to many easy balls and can play to hard. I also thinking of trying do learn more chop blocks so i do not play to clean, what do think about that? It is also very important that when i get an easier ball that i try to attack the ball myself. Sometimes i get to comfortable blocking and just stands there, but then it is to easy for the opponent. I also maybe need to play more short, get the first opening myself and step back and try to play harder. This can be good since good attacking players often do not have so good blocking game. But i need to work at to step out so i have the room to play the ball hard. I also have a hard time if i should focus on footwork aand try to kill the ball with my forehand which is better or if i should try to learn to kill the ball better with the backhand. Maybe a mix of them is best.
Against good blocking players it is also important to vary. It is easy to block if you get the ball in the middle of fh and bh and with the same pace. It may also be a good idea to lower the tempo since this players often like when they get speed and spin against themselves. They proably block because they are not as good at attacking the ball. And if i topspin the ball first they proably will block it back and then i know that and need to try to kill the ball.
I try to work on playing more aggressive and harder myself. Especially trying to kill the ball with the backhand. I have a tendency to play smash well with forehand but play to soft and safe with the backhand. Need to work more on stepping out on the second ball. And also learn to loop hard with the backhand against underspin. Now the opponent know they will get a soft ball. And maybe i should try to play more backhand against the first return, since it is hard to make a good opening topspin with the short pimple? opening with the short pimple is the biggest weakness with short pimple and i am surprised not the pros use this more against Mattias Falck. It is also very important for me that i do not serve long or push long and i just stay there and blocking, i need to get the advantage by placement and variation so i get the easy ball and can kill it. When i have the time to think, "this is an easy ball" then it proably is and i need to kill it. I have trouble against players that have really good serves, where i can not push long well, then i get a too difficult ball to block, and it is proably hard to play short on those balls aswell since the serve is good. I often feel that i lose against players that have better serve and return game than me. The boring stuff like serve and return is most important to win games. I have also problem against players that play like my but they do it faster or against players that play very hard on long pushes. So it is very important that i also develop a game where i can get the first opening topspin and then step back and play harder.
I think it is very important to know how you want to play so you try to always do every shot with a purpose, atleast the serve and return. Otherwise you are just lucky if you win. You need to get the balls that you know you are good at and have practiced alot.
A coach told me about at study where they found out that the best players do fewer kind of shots, compared to other players. This is proably because the best players are so good at getting the balls that they want. It may be a good idea to look at players that play the playing style you want to play and see how they do it.
I have talked alot now and do not know really if this make sense of it it just is bullshit haha. Proably someone find it intreresting and hopefully i will never play against any of you since you now know how i want to play.