Lob & Rush Net tactic
Posted: 25 Jun 2011, 06:31Ivan Ljubicic PM'ed me to complain about dr.ivo's tactic of Lobbing & Rushing the net in their last Tournament match (more in "Wimbledon Singles (Official Topic)" : topic23-4633.php?start=480 ).
dr.ivo statued it was not lob, but the default safe strike.
Before to handle this, I'm going to start with a little story.
When I started to play tournaments in real life, I couldn't decently hit a ball out of stress (and maybe also lack of technics
). So instead of trying to play like Agassi and losing 6/0 6/0 in less than 30 minutes, I moonballed for hours (and a few other tricks 
), bringing my opponents into despair ; often, at the end of match, I got their comment : "this is not tennis" ; I was then replying in my mind : "I didn't come here to give you an easy win, you couldn't handle my moonballing, then you didn't deserve to win, so suck it up".
When you go into a tournament, it's not for a nice friendly match ; you can do that during your practice matches ; when you're in a tournament, you're there to win ; and if your opponent has a weakness, you exploit it till the very end.
Thus said, Tennis Elbow isn't perfect (that may be a vastly unconfirmed statement
), so it may have some game flows to exploit, and in such case I should fix them.
To know if we're in such case, I'd need to see a .dmo showing this kind of play between 2 good players. (how to do a .dmo => topic29-2061.php )
dr.ivo statued it was not lob, but the default safe strike.
Before to handle this, I'm going to start with a little story.
When I started to play tournaments in real life, I couldn't decently hit a ball out of stress (and maybe also lack of technics
). So instead of trying to play like Agassi and losing 6/0 6/0 in less than 30 minutes, I moonballed for hours (and a few other tricks ), bringing my opponents into despair ; often, at the end of match, I got their comment : "this is not tennis" ; I was then replying in my mind : "I didn't come here to give you an easy win, you couldn't handle my moonballing, then you didn't deserve to win, so suck it up".When you go into a tournament, it's not for a nice friendly match ; you can do that during your practice matches ; when you're in a tournament, you're there to win ; and if your opponent has a weakness, you exploit it till the very end.
Thus said, Tennis Elbow isn't perfect (that may be a vastly unconfirmed statement
), so it may have some game flows to exploit, and in such case I should fix them.To know if we're in such case, I'd need to see a .dmo showing this kind of play between 2 good players. (how to do a .dmo => topic29-2061.php )
