please help out my game!!!..

Der_Echte said:

sumangupa, you are going through normal decisions and situations we have all faced starting out, or even at our current levels facing opponents from natl div 1. Decide the style of game play you want and work towards that end. practice ALL the shots, even blocking can become an offensive shot if used right. On pushes, try contacting the ball earlier, you have better short control. That is easier said than done as you have to not only read the spin, but the depth, break, and timing of the bounce. You will not achieve success in your first month. Don't sweat it. In tourneys, sometimes anything can happen, a competitor never gives up. That opponent still has to get to 11 before he or she can stamp you ticket outta there! Who knows what can go wrong for him or what you can do to give them a bad day? Just fight and compete best you can and it will get better with time. So what if dude smacked your long push, that will motivate you to make a better quality push or effectively attack first.

Against those top players, you will not get very many quality chances to attack, so don't sweat it about waiting for the perfect ball, you won't get one. if you do, then is is likely a ball that you are out of position and will make a very low percentage chance, that opponent is betting on it and he is likely very good in the business of gambling and betting.

For now... Just develop your allround game and strengthen those shots that help your style. You should grow into a flexible player capable of using more than one shot or combination to win points. The number of tourneys likely isn't what is killing you right now. Developing basic grip on the game, tactics, balance, shots, combinations, recovery, short game, serve receive/attack are bigger issues for you right now. These things never get to a high standard overnight and when you DO get much better in practice in those areas, it always takes months, like 3-6 months if you play daily to get those things to be point winners in a match, because in a match, you will be less consistant than in practice, your opponent is not giving you the easiest of position and time.

Even when you DO go up in level, you will discover how much you REALLY do not know or perform well in our sport. I do not say that to discourage, but to encourage you. What is great about our sport is there is ALWAYS room to improve, even me at my age, there is always a lot of room to improve. That will always remain a motivating factor for me until I get too much a geezer to improve my game as a hyper-actice aggressive all-out flexible attacking player. Anyone see any of my vids from now and from 4 years ago will know right away. I could devote the rest of the next 15 years and I will likely never make it anywhere past an average div 1 national player. That would still be great as well under 1 percent of all players here in Korea ever make that level. I am near the bottom middle pack of div 3 national which doesn't sound like much, but is already a huge improvement. Maybe 5% of all players here ever make that level and it is 10X harder to move up each division. That is a huge thing to look forward to: I will always have space to grow and I will always find opponents who will make me look like a poor player. In the end, the opponent had a lot to do with that and I can use it as motivation to improve.

You have a coach and a situation to train and improve, count yourself very fortunate, even an advanced country like USA has TT so spread out and our infastructure so ate up, you need a jet helicopter to go everywhere, so TT is hard to grow at local level by geting walk-in or bike-in members, you have to go with a car and purpose/intent, not spontanious. That hurts us. You are paying coach, so be a BUG. Yes, a BUG. Bother your coach with questions every day and make him earn that pay some moar! You also have these nice TT forums where you get TT frienship and advice (whether it is poor or golden) at least it is free, after whatever you pay for your computer and internet service.

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Der_Echte said:

Another thing I have to say, as much as I have lived outside of USA as an American and been to a lot of lands, all you young jokers from India have impressed the heck outta me with your ability to communicate effectively in English! Is it perfect? well... does it really matter? The goal is to say something once and be understood. It's that simple and you all certainly go above that. I see many many peoples spend their entire lives studying English, but since they have to study to pass a test of written comprehension of highest level vocab and grammer that is NEVER used in daily life, their training is useless for writting or speaking and causes a lot of fear of failure when they try to open their mouths. Their training system is to blame, not them. There is no way they can train to get the best scores on that test and still train their brain to seamlessly use vocab and grammar the way native English speakers do! You guys must have a very practical system over there from the few clues I get to see.

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strangeloop said:

@Der_Echte, Over 2 centuries of British rule has done some good I suppose!

To the OP, all I can say is keep practising. The guys you lose to seem to have a lot of experience. That more than makes up for their age, lack of footwork or slow reflexes. Don't let these things frustrate you and continue working on the right things. Result does not matter. What matters is whether you had a clear mind during the match to implement what you practised. If not, try to take more time between points and plan.

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