Author: hookumsnivy
Subject: Describe Your Rating
Posted: 03/07/2014 at 3:31pm
Subject: Describe Your Rating
Posted: 03/07/2014 at 3:31pm
 1dennistt wrote: NextLevel wrote:<snip...> It is possible for your quality of strokes to be far better or worse than your rating. It is possible for your strokes to be very good, since for many players that is all they practice, yet lose to players who's strokes are ugly. Match play and strategy are important parts of the game in addition to correct high quality strokes. Playing someone who only does basic drills, or who's training is mostly on a robot will show the weaknesses in these approaches. Balls placement and pace changes usually are a problem for this type of player, since they don't practice against this. I have played a few players with unusually strong backhands and weak forehands (due to the fact that they use a basement grip on the racket), yet manage to beat players with much better strokes, correct grips and better footwork. Their rating were 1800 to 2000+, wonder how good they could have been with some good coaching when they were learning the game. |
I've seen this quite often. During warm up and against certain opponents they look great but it doesn't always carry over to a match.
I've beaten quite a few players w/ strokes that looked superior to mine but their match play was WAY behind their strokes. Sure, if you feed them what they want they're going to hit a great shot, but you shouldn't be giving them that easy ball if you can help it.