Strategy against this player

[blahness]

updated my post with the link to all 3 games + thoughts

I think against the highest rated player, you can see that pushing his half long BH pendulum service to your wide FH is not really the way to go, you are simply giving away the attack opportunity to him for free. You have to develop other FH receive types (short push, sideswipe, flick, hard long push) than just a simple floaty push. Otherwise his 3rd ball (and many others too) is going to punish you hard. It is probably way too hard to use BH receive in that corner imo while still defending any potential long serves. I still think you can FH hook loop this serve to get better landing rates and control. Brute force looping on the back instead of riding the sidespin is very difficult especially against good deception and variation.

Against the lower rated player (first game) you did really well in the last set, just looping all the long serves with no mercy and immediately starting your attack after his receive. You can see what a big difference this method yields.

 

[Zezima]

I think against the highest rated player, you can see that pushing his half long BH pendulum service to your wide FH is not really the way to go, you are simply giving away the attack opportunity to him for free. You have to develop other FH receive types (short push, sideswipe, flick, hard long push) than just a simple floaty push. Otherwise his 3rd ball (and many others too) is going to punish you hard. It is probably way too hard to use BH receive in that corner imo while still defending any potential long serves. I still think you can FH hook loop this serve to get better landing rates and control. Brute force looping on the back instead of riding the sidespin is very difficult especially against good deception and variation.

Against the lower rated player (first game) you did really well in the last set, just looping all the long serves with no mercy and immediately starting your attack after his receive. You can see what a big difference this method yields.

I agree I also tried this sideswipe receive with the FH into his wide BH sometimes. Which net me a few straight points.

The big problem was that he was so consistent with his halflong backspin serve into my fh. I couldn't keep it short it seems or atleast not all the time.

The lower rated players serve drifted long many many times so it was easier for me. He also surprised me how good he was.

Hook receive on this serve never tried it really. Do you have a video of thar receive?
There is a receive where you go to the right side (my perspective) "with the spin" the ball would land towards his FH. Not sure if I tried that serve receive in that game.

I will be uploading the 3 games soon from Friday. Should I post them here or make a separate thread for those? I think there is a pattern in my mistakes. I just want to know how to practise them and which one to focus on.