Hi strangeloop
i saw your match video, and also your multi-ball drill video.
On the multiball you looked quite good, but on the match you don't look that good, i was a bit disappointed after seeing you drilling to be honest.
So here is my take:
- You have a lot of room to improve your serves. You're doing always the same serve. Its got very little spin, its too high and too long. First try to control the height, to do that you have to hit the ball quite lower than you do now. The lower you hit the ball the lower it will be. Then make it short, two bounces, or even three bounces on the table. Even if your serve has little spin, but its low and short, it will much more difficult for your opponent to attack. Then really work to put more spin on the serves. be more relaxed and think about brushing the ball, and practice practice. Start every drill with serve and return.
- as someone else said, you lack a plan after your serves, because they are weak serves mainly. It goes together
- i see you pushing with your BH too many balls that you should really attack. Sometimes you do, I think you have the technique to attack all those long balls (with either FH or BH), but somehow you don't have the right attitude. You should not push any of them, especially not during a practice match ! Furthermore, your pushing technique is quite poor with that BH, its too passive, the ball is high and easy for the opponent
- when you get the initiative, especially with your FH, most of the time you were winning the point. you can do several topspins in a row, or finish with a big drive. Thats good and what you should do all the time. Thats why you should STOP pushing !! VERBOTEN, 2 points for the opponent when practising !!
- in the second and third set, what changed is that your opponent was a bit more agressive on his return game, and also he played several times wide to your FH. You are stronger on BH to BH and when pivoting. but not when moving from BH to FH. Somehow you missed a lot of those wide balls and when you got them, he just blocked into the open space on the BH side. I've seen you in your drills you have the speed to move, but its a drill with little randomness and little variation. I think the solution when the other guy plays wide in your FH is to play the ball a bit later (! yes later !!) than you do, and do NOT try to play 100% or 90% power, but only 70% power those balls BUT with a lot of spin, adding spin makes it difficult for your opponent to block, and gives you more time to play the next ball. You've always tried to put 90%+ power and play cross and missed them, or sometimes you took the ball too early for a net miss. Another reason for those net misses is that you don't use the rotation of your hips enough. Anyway it would have been an easy block for your opponent. You should try also to play 50% of those balls down the line in his BH.
TLDR: put more spin, in serve or game. i think you have good speed, but not very good touch. maybe relax more. and practice touch. think also about sidespin. Play more down the line instead of cross. Put more variation (spin+speed+placement) in your game. Even if a player has an excellent topspin, very spinny and powerful, after a few balls, if he doesn't change the amount of speed and spin, it becomes very easy to adapt and make good blocks