It has been a little over a week since I have even had any match play (the last match I played really doesn't even count).
Match started off me serving. I took the first match pretty easy playing off my serve I was thinking I am going to cake walk through this game.
Next match he is serving. He didn't have alot on his serves but they where putting me out wide. That is when I realized I was going against a pusher. Everything I was sending over was coming back, so I added pace ball came back with pace. Then I was trying to nail some winners so I started chalking up the UE's. He holds his serve.
Next match I'm serving I decide I need to heat up my serve and try to really challenge him with some pace. Well I hadn't really warmed up my first serve before the match so that was totally my fault. I don't think I ever even got one of my flat first serves in, I did get a double fault, and was working off a weak kick serve since I was pretty much only getting second serve in. The whole I'm going to add a ton of pace and hit harder didn't pay off His balls where just coming back faster. He broke my serve.
Now he's serving my new game plan is to try to just hang out and push and try to out push him. We start going long rallys but I am giving up court because my shots aren't getting a ton of depth because I am focusing on trying to just keep sending the ball back. He gets up about 30 - 0 and I am thinking this is going to get ugly. I then decide to go for some angles and start working on making him run. That paid off I came back to deuce and we battled out but I broke the serve.
Finally I had a plan angles and junk balls. I just started working the farthest shot I could from him and if I couldn't get direction I was sending junk balls. However every match I would give him something different. I came in on the next for one. Sent tons of slices and corner shots on another. My favorite of the junk balling was when I put up a short ball and brought him to the net I think his only time to come to the net. So I sent back a nice super spinny junk shot. He put his racket up for the volley and it spun right up it and dropped into the net.
The over all set score didn't really reflect the game but I took it 6 - 2 but it was alot of back and forth every match. usually 30 - 40 for the match points with a few nice deuce matches mixed in. Only reason I really came out on top was because I won the critical points and he didn't. This game could have easily gone the other way if I didn't up the pressure on the bigger points.
I was pretty happy with my play but I still need to develop a more aggressive baseline shot. I started winning more points when I was going deep with my shots but I didn't really have what I would consider enough pace on them and every time I tried to force pace I was getting the UE's.
What I need to work on now is generating more pace and keeping my accuracy. Tips?
Match started off me serving. I took the first match pretty easy playing off my serve I was thinking I am going to cake walk through this game.
Next match he is serving. He didn't have alot on his serves but they where putting me out wide. That is when I realized I was going against a pusher. Everything I was sending over was coming back, so I added pace ball came back with pace. Then I was trying to nail some winners so I started chalking up the UE's. He holds his serve.
Next match I'm serving I decide I need to heat up my serve and try to really challenge him with some pace. Well I hadn't really warmed up my first serve before the match so that was totally my fault. I don't think I ever even got one of my flat first serves in, I did get a double fault, and was working off a weak kick serve since I was pretty much only getting second serve in. The whole I'm going to add a ton of pace and hit harder didn't pay off His balls where just coming back faster. He broke my serve.
Now he's serving my new game plan is to try to just hang out and push and try to out push him. We start going long rallys but I am giving up court because my shots aren't getting a ton of depth because I am focusing on trying to just keep sending the ball back. He gets up about 30 - 0 and I am thinking this is going to get ugly. I then decide to go for some angles and start working on making him run. That paid off I came back to deuce and we battled out but I broke the serve.
Finally I had a plan angles and junk balls. I just started working the farthest shot I could from him and if I couldn't get direction I was sending junk balls. However every match I would give him something different. I came in on the next for one. Sent tons of slices and corner shots on another. My favorite of the junk balling was when I put up a short ball and brought him to the net I think his only time to come to the net. So I sent back a nice super spinny junk shot. He put his racket up for the volley and it spun right up it and dropped into the net.
The over all set score didn't really reflect the game but I took it 6 - 2 but it was alot of back and forth every match. usually 30 - 40 for the match points with a few nice deuce matches mixed in. Only reason I really came out on top was because I won the critical points and he didn't. This game could have easily gone the other way if I didn't up the pressure on the bigger points.
I was pretty happy with my play but I still need to develop a more aggressive baseline shot. I started winning more points when I was going deep with my shots but I didn't really have what I would consider enough pace on them and every time I tried to force pace I was getting the UE's.
What I need to work on now is generating more pace and keeping my accuracy. Tips?