says
toooooo much choice!!
says
toooooo much choice!!
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Hi LDM7,
When I discussed your opponents receive of your short serve to his FH, ie he generally pushes. So you then know that you are going to get a push return.
Your 3rd ball play is going to be vs backspin, so you have 2 basic options, push the 3rd ball, open-up v backspin (depending how long his push is, then dictates whether its a flick or top spin v backspin open up.)
1) If you decide to push, then really get to grips with your own push as per Der's recommendations. Practice your basic push BH and FH, once mastered, you can then look at the push variations, attacking fast push, spin variation imparted = light/no spin, medium spin, high spin, perhaps some side spin (which you appear to do at present, as you cut across the ball slightly, so when practicing see if you can push with no side spin added.)
2) if you decide to flick or open up top spin vs back spin, then this will have to be drilled in as well.
Perhaps concentrate on pushing firstly, then move onto flicks and open ups vs backspin, you can combine both if you want but prioritise one over the other, say 75% practice pushes, 25% flicks, that sort of thing!!
Knowing that a likely return is going to be a push is good, knowing WHERE it will be pushed to 80% of the time is even better!!!😁😎
How can you do this? choice of serve and spin on the ball for certain serves increase the likelihood of a 'predictable' return, hopefully having watched MH's video you'll see the light!!!!
When I discussed your opponents receive of your short serve to his FH, ie he generally pushes. So you then know that you are going to get a push return.
Your 3rd ball play is going to be vs backspin, so you have 2 basic options, push the 3rd ball, open-up v backspin (depending how long his push is, then dictates whether its a flick or top spin v backspin open up.)
1) If you decide to push, then really get to grips with your own push as per Der's recommendations. Practice your basic push BH and FH, once mastered, you can then look at the push variations, attacking fast push, spin variation imparted = light/no spin, medium spin, high spin, perhaps some side spin (which you appear to do at present, as you cut across the ball slightly, so when practicing see if you can push with no side spin added.)
2) if you decide to flick or open up top spin vs back spin, then this will have to be drilled in as well.
Perhaps concentrate on pushing firstly, then move onto flicks and open ups vs backspin, you can combine both if you want but prioritise one over the other, say 75% practice pushes, 25% flicks, that sort of thing!!
Knowing that a likely return is going to be a push is good, knowing WHERE it will be pushed to 80% of the time is even better!!!😁😎
How can you do this? choice of serve and spin on the ball for certain serves increase the likelihood of a 'predictable' return, hopefully having watched MH's video you'll see the light!!!!