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If you want to win, Dominate Game 1

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Topic: If you want to win, Dominate Game 1

Posted By: nicholasy
Subject: If you want to win, Dominate Game 1
Date Posted: 03/07/2019 at 8:13am

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Posted By: Slowhand
Date Posted: 03/07/2019 at 1:39pm

I like the advice to start with fast long serves to the body. Easy to miss those when you're not warmed up. But the stats analysis is incomplete at best. Of course the person who wins game 1 usually wins the match; he's already 1/3 of the way to winning, usually the better player (or the player who's playing better) wins any given game as well as the match, there might be an even bigger advantage to the winner of game 2 or 3, etc. The only thing I'm sure about is it's best to win the last game.

Posted By: Tt Gold
Date Posted: 03/07/2019 at 5:27pm

That's quite interesting. Years ago I heard the saying that it's not that important to win the first set. The goal of the first set is to try a lot of different serves and analyze your opponents game. If you lose the first one it doesn't matter. You now know how to play the match and can go on to winning the match.

Posted By: pingpungpeng
Date Posted: 03/07/2019 at 6:37pm

I would say if you want to dominate try to win as many sets as possible and as soon as possible LOL

Posted By: Tt Gold
Date Posted: 03/07/2019 at 7:20pm

The problem with that is that if you go all out to win the first set, you most likely won't focus on tactical things as much, which might cause problems in the following sets.

Posted By: BH-Man
Date Posted: 03/07/2019 at 9:10pm

In League last week, I lost Game 1 in a match 0-11, then won match 3-1.

Losing game 1 can be overcome.

When I was a rec player playing in tourneys, A lot of players higher level than me would lose game vs me, then cream me like egg whites for soufflé.

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Posted By: DLC1325
Date Posted: 03/07/2019 at 10:36pm

Tt Gold wrote:

That's quite interesting. Years ago I heard the saying that it's not that important to win the first set. The goal of the first set is to try a lot of different serves and analyze your opponents game. If you lose the first one it doesn't matter. You now know how to play the match and can go on to winning the match.

This.

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Posted By: mykonos96
Date Posted: 03/08/2019 at 12:30am

nicholasy wrote:

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Posted By: kenneyy88
Date Posted: 03/08/2019 at 3:29am

If you want to win, Dominate the whole match.