Didn't film the first round. This is a game from the 2nd Round in Germany.
1) I see some problems during rally that I am very bad at anticipating her shots especially when she was pressuring with her bh. I am only reacting and lifting the ball.
2) After looping one topspin (she has a very good block) I am not in position to loop again and then I am scooping the ball again. Last Season I did this mostly when the next ball fell shorter and I was standing in the back waiting. Here it seems like the length would be fine but I still don't loop it properly again.
There are many examples but here is one weird shot: 14:32. It's like I realize I had my racket angle too open and if I fully sent it it would go out. So I stopped my motion and it was neither a topspin nor something else.
Good examples: 14:47 something I have been practising in my training. Motion looks good. Very good spin. Also relaxed motion and not a super fast acceleration but a good 60-70% I would say.
16:10 I am just pushing to see who is more patient and how she reacts. Turns out she is quite nervous and kept pushing and did the mistake in the end. I was like this is boring tabletennis to win like this cmon loop it. And she said haha no you should loop it. I was like fk it if I am gonna lose I wanna lose with a longterm goal in mind. So I want to loop as soon as I feel comfortable. My older teammate told me he would have kept just pushing to win the match, he doesn't care how he wins.
negative:
Especially in the last set. You can clearly see that I struggle a lot from just blocking and driving and then transitioning into Topspin when I am close to table. 70% it's not even the time issue but mainly I don't have the feeling to topspin? Hard to describe it feels like I didn't play a topspin for 1h just took a break or something and now I would need to do warmup topspin strokes first to get the feel again. So I default back to drive and soft blocking. This is a very bad habit I want to get rid of. It's fine to win some points of off blocking but the way I block and drive just feels like we are playing a trainingdrill she attacks everywhere and I am the passive player whose goal is to just bring it back to the table. The feel of accelerating at contact when topspinning is close to 0 here.
17:43 I try again since the incoming ball was a weak highish push and then I freeze after my loop. Since I stopped attacking (Trust me I would attack again but during game it felt like I have no time) I lose a point that belonged to me. One of the bad habits of my weak trainingspartner + used to play with d09c so barely anyone could block that shot back to the table. Also I am facing much better players now so I need to get into my brain that I should always be prepared to loop twice and that one only is not enough most of the time now.
Also I am dropping my racket too much like 70% of the time or so. That also messes up with my strokepath I think. Since I am not fast enough to get the racket up high and then with a more closed racket angle hit it forwards. It always looks like I want to hit the ball at the very back and lift it up giving crazy high arc and then being scared to loop out so I am not accelerating into the ball. Against her I needed to hit more topspins forwards especially in the drive/block duels.
