I will appreciate if you can give a tactical points to improve my chances against this player, also what I should practice to get better at against this style/player?
I would like also for you to review my reading of my playing style based on the two videos I’ve giving you so far (see below)
Fabian – Equipment:
- Timo Boll Spirit Blade, Raksa7 on the FH, Donic Acuda S2 on the BH.
Fabian – General Playing Style:
- Generally, I would say, all round player, not too powerful, but more of a consistent looper.
- Can open-up with both FH & BH. However, I tend sometimes to drop the bat too much, and struggle to keep been aggressive with my BH after my first BH open-up.
- In general, I look to serve mainly short-backspin and initiate looping against a push and get the opponent to block and I loop constantly till wining the point.
- I can block consistently, sometimes I block too much, I can counter loop from mid-to-long distance, not close to the table, and I can counter punch with BH when confident.
- Good Footwork overall, however I struggle a bit with in-and-out footwork, and sometimes my pivot is too square.
Fabian – Service:
- My main serve is FH pendulum, can do good backspin, no spin, and side-topspin, can serve short and long fast also. Placement is also improving, can do short FH (I think I need to this more often), and also middle and BH, short and long.
- My second serve is BH serve, weaker serve, and I use it more as a variation, and also very easy to serve short FH with this serve.
- My third serve is reverse pendulum (rarely I use it, only when confident). This serve is still under development.
Fabian – Receive:
- I am now feeling more confident to flick half long serves with my BH, and attack long serves with my BH (but struggle if fast and/or sudden serve).
- With my FH, I tend to push, need to perhaps flick more the short serves to my FH, and also be ready to attack the long serves.
- In general, I tend to push short serves, and attack long serves.
- I struggle a bit against short serves to my FH (hook or reverse pendulum)
