[Exhibition] Dubai Princess Cup 2010

Summon said:

I’m afraid I’m the one that has to call you out on this, and I realise I sound bitter and sour but I’m not. I played a good match and I’m happy with that.

I just find it very strange that you don’t make a single return in my first 2 service games, only to make 4 service return winners in a row to break me at love. The same thing happens early in the second. Then I finally break you and it happens again, all of a sudden you read my serve perfectly and break, not at love, but with ease.

If I’m missing something here please explain, because my serve is hardly predictable, I use all directions, and even top spin and slice serve. So can you please explain how you sometimes return so perfectly in a single game, or are you just a master in the game and are we (or in this case me) just a silly noob?

I seriously don’t mean to offend you, but this is how I feel and I think I should be able to express this, for the sake of the game.

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My return is incosnistent. In some matches I can time the return consistenly well and in some I can only do for brief momemnts (usually enough to get a break in each set.) I've spent a lot of time practicing the return and I can time it extremely well as long as I can read where it is going which during the games I broke you I was able to do. Change of serve pace doesnt bother me a lot. You served in different directions but at times you were a bit predictable and I was able to anicipate where you going to serve. You also served a lot to my better groundstroke which was odd. You served too many wide serves to the forehand in the deuce court and T serves to the forehand in the deuce court. Most of the bette returns I hit were off the fh.

Pat of it was skill. Part of it was luck (some of m good returns were close to going out). When I first got this game I was addicted. I used to lose a lot so I put in a lot of practice regarding my timing and especially my return. I know that even if my timming is off there will be at least one game in the match where I'll be able to string a few good returns together and have a shot at breaking.

Oh and you dont sound bitter or sour (Although Im not exactlyw hat there is to call me out on). I enjoyed our match and thought you played well. As a suggestion may I reccomend htting more body serves. You served pretty big and big serves into the body can often come as a suprise since most serve only out wide and down the T. They are also harder (for me at least) to hit risk returns off of.

It would be nice to have a match without negative feedback. First it was the risk shots but now that the've been banned and I havent used them in ralies I'm now being criticized for hitting a few good returns.