Hey Gabriel, I think the most important thing to practice to help you improve this is playing drills where you spend time only focusing on this. so a really good one is you playing backhand topspin from your backhand half and covering the middle and you goal is to play into the opponents elbow and then find the angles. I wouldn’t say there are any drills in particular to focus on this it’s more thinking about this during all your exercises and trying to make it a subconscious thing that you target good positions on the table.
For example you can do a simple backhand open up drill where the opponent pushes to your backhand and you have to open up, but your first attack has to go into the elbow/body of the opponent and then you play the rally, this makes it match realistic and gets you thinking about it more often. In terms of where to play the elbow is really effective against all players, but of course different players will have different weaknesses so it depends on the opponent. So during games you need to look out for where they are weak, like wide in the forehand or for example they struggle to block on the backhand and then target these areas.
So I would say for you i’s more about consistently focusing on the placement rather than any drills in particular. I hope this makes sense, any questions let me know. Tom 🙂
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