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Attack serves aggressive with the short pimples, especially long is very very difficult. I think you Will miss to much doing this. Nothing wrong with the stroke just the judgement.
Play hard against long serves or pushes with Short pimple is more chance. Falck can not Do this well and he is top ten in the world.
Better to focus on keeping the ball low And vary the placement at long serves and pushes. Aswell try to vary the power ans spin. But if the ball is high you can of course play high. Remember to always come under the ball. Always need to come under the ball with short pimple because of the little grip. Otherwise you Will get No arc whatsoever and it Will not be safe.
Lula, what's your approach to looping these mid/long backspin serves and pushes? "quick loop" using mostly forearm snap or full body brush? I find the quick loop more consistent, but lacking in spin and pace, very easily counter-attacked. Whereas the full brush loop often causes me recovery time, kills the tempo for follow up shots. Have you found a middle ground?
with short pimple or inverted?
Proably also depends on what kind of ball you get against you, what you can do and have time to do. Important to react to what comes and not make up your mind beforehand.
I think that the opening loop do not have to have very good pace and spin all the time. As long as you vary the placement and try to change the pace and spin. Keeping the ball low is proably most important.
if you have the spinniest opening loop in the world and always put it in the same place the loop is not so good anymore. It is the same thing as serves. If you vary the placement and vary it the serve is good, and you really do not need to have very much amount of spin. Talked to Jon Persson and he said Samsonovs serve is like this, nothings special but really good variation in placement, he can put it anywhere.