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Hey,
Curious to hear what if anything goes through other people's heads as they return serves with sidespin on them (not so interested in top/no/underspin as it's more straightforward once you've read it, to me).
When first encountering very sidespinny serves , I would very consciously have to try process along the lines of (if the incoming serve is right hander pendulum) "ok if his racket is going to my right, the ball will want to go in that direction, so aim left".
Which is clearly not ideal as it's too much information to try process in such a short time. Since then I've gotten used to automatically adjusting the bat, but I do still struggle when I play people with funky looking serves that are hard to read in the windup. Wondering if anyone has any helpful mental notes or tricks, or if you just need to receive enough serves until it becomes fully unconscious
Curious to hear what if anything goes through other people's heads as they return serves with sidespin on them (not so interested in top/no/underspin as it's more straightforward once you've read it, to me).
When first encountering very sidespinny serves , I would very consciously have to try process along the lines of (if the incoming serve is right hander pendulum) "ok if his racket is going to my right, the ball will want to go in that direction, so aim left".
Which is clearly not ideal as it's too much information to try process in such a short time. Since then I've gotten used to automatically adjusting the bat, but I do still struggle when I play people with funky looking serves that are hard to read in the windup. Wondering if anyone has any helpful mental notes or tricks, or if you just need to receive enough serves until it becomes fully unconscious