Hey Resznotes, I think the number one thing first is being focused on the ball and making a good contact before thinking too much about tge placement on the other side etc. Try to keep your eyes on the ball and track it inro your bat up until a point where you feel totally confident you will make a good contact and then switch your focus over to your opponents side and try to start picking up signals from them on where the next shot may be coming.
When you get more and more confidence with this you’ll be able to spend less time on focusing on your own contact and think more about studying the opponents to give yourself more time abd awareness of whatvis coming next in the point. I hope that makes sense and helps! 🙂
