Cindysphinx
G.O.A.T.
We have got to take Forehand Takes The Middle out back and shoot it in the head. I don't know where this idea came from, but it is making me crazy.
I play deuce court. I am perfectly happy to hit my BH volley. It is usually stronger than my FH volley.
Yet I play with partners who practice FTTM and scold me after any missed BH volley. This is causing me all manner of headache.
A ball comes up the middle and I take it, but I get scolded that it wasn't my ball because her FH was in the middle. So even though my partner was deeper in the court, I'm supposed to not poach.
It's just a hot mess.
FTTM leaves the middle too exposed because I am not taking balls I could reach with my BH.
FTTM leaves the deep player covering the entire court except the alley I can cover with my FH. So my partner has responsibility for 80% of the court and I have 20%.
FTTM sounds good when the net player is in the ad court (her FH is to the middle), but if she is trying to cover diagonal balls she is leaving her alley wide open, and a lot of players can take a FH DTL for a winner.
FTTM is hard for the net player with a decent BH volley to implement. I don't know where my partner is, so I cannot judge when to let balls go through. Better, I think, is for me to take what I think I can take without regard to whose FH is in the middle.
Don't get me started on the issues playing with lefties. It's enough to give you vertigo.
Cindy -- who is more likely to feel like scolding partners who let balls go through that they should take
I play deuce court. I am perfectly happy to hit my BH volley. It is usually stronger than my FH volley.
Yet I play with partners who practice FTTM and scold me after any missed BH volley. This is causing me all manner of headache.
A ball comes up the middle and I take it, but I get scolded that it wasn't my ball because her FH was in the middle. So even though my partner was deeper in the court, I'm supposed to not poach.
It's just a hot mess.
FTTM leaves the middle too exposed because I am not taking balls I could reach with my BH.
FTTM leaves the deep player covering the entire court except the alley I can cover with my FH. So my partner has responsibility for 80% of the court and I have 20%.
FTTM sounds good when the net player is in the ad court (her FH is to the middle), but if she is trying to cover diagonal balls she is leaving her alley wide open, and a lot of players can take a FH DTL for a winner.
FTTM is hard for the net player with a decent BH volley to implement. I don't know where my partner is, so I cannot judge when to let balls go through. Better, I think, is for me to take what I think I can take without regard to whose FH is in the middle.
Don't get me started on the issues playing with lefties. It's enough to give you vertigo.
Cindy -- who is more likely to feel like scolding partners who let balls go through that they should take