Guess The Ratings - I Disgust Myself

There is never enough to make full conclusions. And there is always enough to make reasonable guesses whether on the basis of technique, strategy or tactics once you are familiar with styles and limitations. Some players find success in TT in doing very few things extremely well, and often, pips players fall into this class of player below the 2000 level. Many inverted players do too, by the way. And the fact that both players were more willing to fight on the territory they did tells you that more likely than not, the players are familiar with each other. This is often true in many club matches as well, but lesa obviously so between players superficially varying strategy.

Posting a league match is not entirely fair because in a league match, sometimes, you feel comfortable playing to strengths to force yourself to get better. But in any case, do realize that when a point pattern seems repetitive, it is because both players feel they should have the advantage in that pattern.

Edited by NextLevel - 01/09/2015 at 6:40am

pnachtwey wrote: Nextlevel,  your BH is really pretty good.   My coach would approve of your BH stroke. Your opponent was not that aggressive and he appeared to be a blocker hitter. There are lots of those around here.  I change pace, placement and spin to keep them adapting to me. <span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px;"> I would have let him make more mistakes.  </span> Third, agree with others that you don't put enough effort in serves.   I bet Forest Gump would have been thinking serves are like a box of chocolates you never know what to expect  :)  I try not to make the same serve twice. There is no point in being disgusted with yourself unless you are playing TT to make money.  I really do play for the health of it.  Just being able to play is a victory.  At least it is when you get older.

Sometimes, watching yourself on tape just feels very different from what you thought you did when playing. In my mind, I am doing all these Zhang Jike strokes and moving my feet and I watch the tape and see myself just hitting the ball with this arm stroke and standing in quicksand. I think its a common feeling amongst players who tape themselves.

He's a 2000 level medium pips hitter/blocker. The way I usullly beat him didn't work here so I may need to tweak things. Just thought people would enjoy watching me hit high balls off the table. Like I said in my previous post, serving strategy is tailored to what you know about opponents. What would be instructive for some people (I have my own answers) is to figure out why a strategy that worked for me a week earlier did not a week later.

Thanks for the kind words.

I don't mind. I wanted to post some of my matches against forum members including this one, but on the mytt members thread. Still requesting some permissions before going ahead.

Pushing side topspin serves cost me that match more than anything else. I like to think I would return better today but some old habits die hard.

On the match with Liu, his balls came shorter in the first video because had slowed down his equipment and it threw my timing off. It happened throughout the match. It also enabled him to block shorter and consistently.

Edited by NextLevel - 01/09/2015 at 1:42pm

mhnh007 wrote: NL - Are you using the same rubber against MP player?

Forehand, yes, backhand, no.  Blade is different.  I wish I had tried the blade -rubber combo I used against the MP player before the Teams - the blade I used at teams was Xiom Vega Pro, FH Big Dipper, BH T05.   Might have saved me a lot of rating points. The two matches against MP player, I used my current setup.

Edited by NextLevel - 01/09/2015 at 3:34pm

No. The score was 9-9. So I decided to take a risk on the first serve. My fake did not work and the serve was too slow. The second serve was supposed to be double bounce short but drifted.

Here are a pair of matches vs. another forum member.  The first was when I was around 1550 or so.  The second was much more recent and was part of my recent 2000 push.  I wish I could pretend I played the second encounter with skill and dexterity but I just missed less than he did and got lucky a few times with long serves.

I was watching your rematch video when I just realized I was on the table right behind you playing one of my matches also. Also at the 3:52 point of the video the person from the table next to you is a fellow member from my club also.

Edited by Vince64 - 01/10/2015 at 1:26am

fatt wrote: he he I see him at 3:52;  hey vince64 you pass the ball the schen at 3:48 correct?

Yep. I was in the green shirt. I won that match 3-0.

fatt wrote: in the match with toprank there is a kid from seattle spttc on the left :)

That would be one Alan Bi. I just played him on Wednesday night. We split two matches 3-2 (12-10 game 5) him and 3-1 me the next match.

In German lpz points it would probably be around 1300-1500 so1700-1900 in us points

Yeah. That's a big danger with calling umpires. Your serves must be squeaky clean.