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What is ur guys opinion on this? Im thinking playing a better guy should provide nothing but good things for my game, since im getting used to much harder and faster shots than my level, which improves alot of aspects such as movement, hand eye coordination, feel for faster shots..
We went to play yesterday, found him on a local searching for tennis players app, not many players around at all and active, but he was so I wrote to him, he said he trained tennis for 10 years from like 6 years old, then stopped and now he plays friends and also in a local league competition year around, plays 3-4 times a week.
So I told him I have limited tennis experience and he would find it boring to play against me so not much point going, but he insisted and said its fine we can go play for fun no problem, so I said well why not, some cardio won't hurt.
Anyway we played yesterday and after the session he said we can go play some more anytime, I should just let him know.
I said if he really does not find it boring to play against such an inferior player and he said its fine, playing tennis is fun and il improve faster playing better guys, and he finds it fun playing and he also needs to practice his serve alot so its the same going to practice by himself or playing some fun rallies and practicing serve and stuff a bit.
What we did:
Warm up mini tennis for few mins
Rallies for like 20-30 mins.
Then we alternated serving for 20-30 mins, he served a bit, then me, then him etc..
Finally again some rallies for 20-30 mins.
What he said:
I have nice pace on my serve and good spin (I knew my serve had decent pace and spin but its very inconsistent)
And that im pretty decent for the amount of time ive played tennis
My experience:
His shots are very consistent, almost never misses wide or long or into the net, 99% of the time it goes in, but im sure he was not going for his shots much, since he went for it like 3-4 times maybe in the whole session and those shots had much more pace on them than the usual shots.
He did vary spin alot, some shots had alot of slice, some had less topspin, some had ton of topspin.
Overall I could handle his shots pretty decently (tho I know they were not his best shots), but they were fairly fast and had alot of topspin, more so than the ones I play against usually, so its quite good for me I think for my development.
I think I could have went for more control tho, I went too hard on most of them, because I didn't want to just hit a too slow ball back for him, so he would be like wth is this slow ball lol, so the shots were not as consistent, made probably like 3-5 shots before I made an unforced error on average.
His 2nd serve is very nice thing to practice for me, since it doesn't have huge pace and has ton of spin, so im getting used to the heavy topspin and slice on shots and getting the feel for those serves.
His 1st serve seems (at least from my 1st session now) not very useful for me to practice, since it has so much speed and pace that im just barely able to stretch to it and its always a big misshit, just have no clue how to handle such pace, my racquet gets twisted since im so stretched and don't have much leverage on it, but maybe in time il get used to it, who knows.
We went to play yesterday, found him on a local searching for tennis players app, not many players around at all and active, but he was so I wrote to him, he said he trained tennis for 10 years from like 6 years old, then stopped and now he plays friends and also in a local league competition year around, plays 3-4 times a week.
So I told him I have limited tennis experience and he would find it boring to play against me so not much point going, but he insisted and said its fine we can go play for fun no problem, so I said well why not, some cardio won't hurt.
Anyway we played yesterday and after the session he said we can go play some more anytime, I should just let him know.
I said if he really does not find it boring to play against such an inferior player and he said its fine, playing tennis is fun and il improve faster playing better guys, and he finds it fun playing and he also needs to practice his serve alot so its the same going to practice by himself or playing some fun rallies and practicing serve and stuff a bit.
What we did:
Warm up mini tennis for few mins
Rallies for like 20-30 mins.
Then we alternated serving for 20-30 mins, he served a bit, then me, then him etc..
Finally again some rallies for 20-30 mins.
What he said:
I have nice pace on my serve and good spin (I knew my serve had decent pace and spin but its very inconsistent)
And that im pretty decent for the amount of time ive played tennis
My experience:
His shots are very consistent, almost never misses wide or long or into the net, 99% of the time it goes in, but im sure he was not going for his shots much, since he went for it like 3-4 times maybe in the whole session and those shots had much more pace on them than the usual shots.
He did vary spin alot, some shots had alot of slice, some had less topspin, some had ton of topspin.
Overall I could handle his shots pretty decently (tho I know they were not his best shots), but they were fairly fast and had alot of topspin, more so than the ones I play against usually, so its quite good for me I think for my development.
I think I could have went for more control tho, I went too hard on most of them, because I didn't want to just hit a too slow ball back for him, so he would be like wth is this slow ball lol, so the shots were not as consistent, made probably like 3-5 shots before I made an unforced error on average.
His 2nd serve is very nice thing to practice for me, since it doesn't have huge pace and has ton of spin, so im getting used to the heavy topspin and slice on shots and getting the feel for those serves.
His 1st serve seems (at least from my 1st session now) not very useful for me to practice, since it has so much speed and pace that im just barely able to stretch to it and its always a big misshit, just have no clue how to handle such pace, my racquet gets twisted since im so stretched and don't have much leverage on it, but maybe in time il get used to it, who knows.
