Your playing style/Nightmare opponent?

Hi, I am wondering how you all play and wich style is hardest for you to play against. I hope this will give me and you some tips about how to play fifferent sytles of play.

My style: I prefer to stand approximately 3 m behind the table. Work very hard with my feets and chops alot, especially on BH. I use sidespin to confuse opponent and rarly play loop. When I loop och just hit hard and flat it is when i seee an oppurtuniy to kill the ball.
I have fonud that my style of play i very frustrating to face for thoose who plays all out loop.

My nightmare to face is: A player who plays uppfront to the table. Plays with great variation between short backspins and fast low topspin balls using the angles to make me run all over the place.

For thoose of you who looks at my blade setup; The main reason I want fast rubber is; I dont have to make an acctuall stroke to get the ball back. I can just block the ball back on the table wich is good when I am a little to late to the ball.

Now, please tell my yout style and nightmare opponent!

My playing style is mostly all around except chopping.

My nightmare is players who are great at service and 3rd ball kills... it just leaves me standing there wondering where the ball went.  I guess i need more work on my service return.

Also I hate players who flip kill everything.. akfdfdsfsdkf

I hate heavy topsins and old man with super long pips... drives me nuts when my ball just hits the table instead of even the net.

 

i play a looping game....loop loop loop on forehand, but i push too. Backhand, loop and push....

my loops are mainly just powerful, what i lack is placement.

I dont like playing choppers, or old guys that have immaculate placement and run me all over the place. I also have a hard time with really spinny side spin brush loops.

I'm a pretty aggressive loop-attacker, close-to-medium distance from the table.

My nightmare opponents are those with the same style, who aggressively loop everything that goes deep enough to loop, or high enough on the table.

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I am a player who uses serve and third ball attacks to beat choppers... but i find it difficult playing with choppers who uses long pips and anti's to chop backspin ball and no spin ball... their motion is almost alike... my only method is by looking onto the ball spin now...

Choppers are the easiest to play... and aggresive attackers, the worst are people that just stands there and block or lob the ball back... it is so damn frustrating!

I guess i am a nightmare for some:
I block and hit with short pips both sides with push/chop variation and serve 3 ball.

My nightmare is some one who can overpower me serve and great 3ball. If I get in a rally I have a chance.

I think the answer against any style is to find the way to keep the player off balance just like judo really. If opponent has weak bh for instance play to middle or decision line until he moves to one side. Then if he has tried to play forehand from his bh side, stuff it wide of his fh and finish it down his bh. If on the other hand he moves to the centre to play bh then you can switch wide bh, wide fh, wide bh
Of course the above assumes the opponent is more cooperative than most i've met!
Another thing I find tough is a good lobber. I have a good kill but sometimes find I am playing a guy who has a better lob /mid distance game. So the battle is about the lobber wants the smasher wear himself out: The close table guy wants to keep the lobber close and only smash when the guy cant retreat. The one who can make it easy for himself and difficult for his opponent will often triumph. The actual tactics are still placement to decision line , wait for opponent to move before punching in the gap. but its overlaid with a general sense of trying to keep the rally out of the opponents comfort zone.
Hey looking at the above i played as good as I talk Id be doing well! But you never know my ramblings may help some one!

pimpmyracket wrote: ttman wrote: arggghhhhh ill play you ppgear! where are u located? Sorry dude, I'm in Toronto. I wonder what the ratio of Torontonians vs. Americans is.

Wonderful, I just gave away my identity, stupid cookies. I didn't want to associate PPGEAR with some of my newbier questions.

silly experiment:
below shows:
Imagine your looking at a logical rep of the table showing opponent position and the placement of your shots. I havent considered the possibility of opponent not cooperating, but thats advanced stuff.
Of course no rally is that simple, but Fraziel for instance could refine his big shot to the middle with this tactic.
first shot to decision line
opponent moves to bh so
second shot to fh
opponent scrambles to fh
finish to bh
what would you do if opponent returned your shot but stayed in position:
repeat shot 1 till he does move making sure to aim at his playing shoulder then execute shot 2(dont change placements without good reason,)
    0          0     0
------     ------    -------
     1     2               3 (chooooo!)
by the way I am new to this forum game, is there a better way to show tactical diagrams?

Schlager wrote: Choppers are the easiest to play... and aggresive attackers, the worst are people that just stands there and block or lob the ball back... it is so damn frustrating!

If someone can stand in one place and lob to you, that might mean you need to move the ball around more.  Lobbers should have to be running all over the place.

I spin everything heavy.  Slow topspin, heavy pushes, spinny serves.  Not much power....difficulty in making flat shots.

Therefore the junk rubbers are my worst matchup.

Generally I loop and drive on both FH and BH.

There's just one player I hate to play with. I mean he is so quick with his smashes makes me feel like switching to golf or something. He's C-pen short pip. Plays like Liu Guoliang.

I play with heavy loops on fh and flat on backhand..im new in tt.i hate the long pimples users hehe i just hate them...arrghhh and also those that have hard bats..with those crappy rubbers

greets

i am a two wingd looper. Is it just me or is this style just hard against every style, and there is no real good matchups. It just depends how good your strokes are

 

my nirhgtmare style would be a lobber with one side long pips and twirls when there close to the table