My "match" with Kamal Achanta, WR #72

Hi guys,

I generally hate my videos but here I decided to publish this one, since it's just fun. Our coach brought in his friend from many years ago (I think they played together in India when they were juniors) - Kamal Sharath Achanta, WR #72. He had some demo practice and short matches with a lot of us - I would guess more than a dozen people played him.

He is very nice, quiet guy - he played great tennis with a completely new (to him) setup provided to him by Killerspin, his new sponsor.

So anyway, we had fun. I edited the video to get rid of some embarassing (to me) moments, so as you can see I win all the time!! Makes me wonder why I am not in the top ten yet...

JimT vs Kamal Achanta

Great New Year present to our club members. I have some more very short clips where he plays Grant Li and some other players, but they are not as good as mine, of course

pushblocker will be proud, those bh winners were superb! very lucky to play against him, he is 2006 commonwealth games gold medalist! top class player, champions league player, nice jimmy!

finally seeing jim in the flesh, some bald guy who cant play

nice video!

JimT wrote: Of course not, he just stopped by for a couple of days on his way back home from Killerspin Invitational.

Skyline wrote: JimT wrote: Of course not, he just stopped by for a couple of days on his way back home from Killerspin Invitational.   JimT are you a flat hitter? How do you like the Wraith for flat hitting and punch blocking, is it a lot more sensitive to spin than outlaw?

I like flat hitting once in a while but generally I am a combo-style player, I spin a little and I block a little and I flat-hit some and I even chop once in a while.

I like Wraith for all of that to tell you the truth. It is imho a bit less sensitive to incoming spin than Outlaw which shouldn't be the case as Outlaw is harder and non-tacky.

You need to video your matches against Ovtcharov or Mizutani, with some editing job, you'll be in the top ten before long.. 

Skyline wrote: I hope not that those points are  all the points you won in the whole match haha.

That's cold, my friend...

The final score was 11-7

JimT wrote: Of course not, he just stopped by for a couple of days on his way back home from Killerspin Invitational.

Where he beat Schlager, and almost Chen Qi.

Only if I learn to magically transport myself to Florida...

dragon kid wrote: btw, if you don't mind me asking, what's your USATT rating?

It fluctuates... I don't play a lot of tourneys and the ones I play it's hard to change my rating since there is not a lot of people in New England with ratings above 1900-2000. Formally it is around 1900 but I (of course! ) believe it should be higher... like 2037 or smth... especially when I fix my bum knee and lose another 10 pounds of fat.

JimT wrote: You may notice that everybody is playing rather loose, no pressure, so don't judge me too harshly. Not to mention my bad left knee prevented me from winning - otherwise I would prevail, no doubt! Also - I am using Nexy Color with LKT Rapid Speed 2.2 FH and Gambler Wraith 2.2 BH.

Boring! Show the rest of the video of Achanta owning you!

JimT wrote: Making fun of my fashion taste, huh?

Heimdallalso wrote: Well done Jim... thanks for sharing. relaxed the way to be most often love the BH not enough to leave my short pips though huh

Well, come over to our club and we'll give your pips some proper testing!

BH