The Exhibition Thread

by **NALDOS** » Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:34

sorry for being newb im playing top spin 3 for 1 year and i never knew there is a site like this. how can i join the world tour?

by **MasterJoe1988 BANNED** » Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:25

beat gabe038 just now 7-6(4) 1-6 7-6(5) he broke my serve twice, i didnt break him & he won 10 more points than me! our friendly h2h now is me leading 2-1, all 3 matches have gone to a deciding set, its great fun playing gabe!

by **beltic caldy** » Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:10

Ok, so I know I'm prone to superlatives, but played a match (Generali Ladies Linz WS R32) against Drago a couple of nights ago, that I'm still thinking about :shock:

Drago beat me pretty comfortably in MS match about a week back - 6-3, 6-4....but I was still expecting to do much better with my female char in the rematch. Couldn't have predicted what would happen.

Drago played with a Steffi character - I didn't really pay attention to her stats, but did notice a return attribute of 70, with service waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down at 40, and thought

happy days...

Next thing I was struggling to hold my own serve, and he was holding easily - in my second service game, I was broken to love - the very first time this has happened in the WS for me!!! By the end of the first set, I had pretty much decided there was no way I could win - apart from Drago comfortably holding serve, with me really really struggling to do likewise, he was running me around the court like a lunatic - moving me like a cat plays with a mouse

First set to Drago, 6-4.

In the second set, with my serve broken just once, I was 4-6 and 4-5 (15-40) down - 2 match points, and somehow, somehow saved them and broke back - then went on to win the tie-break....saving a further 4 match points during that.

The final set went with serve until 5-5 when I (honestly don't know how) broke Drago's serve and (honestly don't know how either) held my own, to win the set and match 4-6, 7-6, 7-5.

In a career littered with tough, bloody, gory battles, this match stands alone as the hardest fought battle i've ever been involved in and won. I've never won a match, having saved 6, maybe 7 match points - I was very very close to actually quiting the match entirely out of sheer frustration at not being able to break a player with 40 serve - but, of course, not just any player - Drago, you are a force to be reckoned with sir, MS and WS and no doubt MSS too - thanks again for an amazing, amazing match

by **djarvik** » Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:21

What stands out to me is 67% win on second serve. You really needed to do better with 40 serve and second serve. But it is indeed very impressive by Drago to win 71% of his first serves with 40 service. I got to play Drago and see whats up with that.

I guess our match was less impressive :lol:

but it was certainly a battle and I really enjoyed it....finally, after 2-3 weeks of missing each other - we played.

by **beltic caldy** » Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:34

Good call man, re needing to do better on his second serve - couldn't seem to manage it tho : (

Our match was most-excellent!!! The char I played - 90 return - was able to break serve several times in first set to win it 6-3, but I seemed to keep doing the same thing with return...whereas you up-geared several notches - second set was tie-break to you, and third you won quite comfortably.

And all with mid-fifties (56!!!?!?!?) backhand!!

If I could have kept returning like I did in the first set, the headline might have been otherwise....but even in that set, I couldn't help feel you hadn't turned the heat fully up - sets 2 and 3 proved me right : )

Final score: 3-6, 7-6, 6-2

Truly great match anyways man - you didn't happen to record it I suppose!!!?!

by **djarvik** » Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:43

naah...sorry I didn't record it. It requires connecting a device and playing at lower resolution :lol:

I don't like that....but I can, if needed.

My player was (in case you curious)

Sim Roger Federer:
FH 89
Bh 54
Sv 71
Rt 60
Vy 71
Pw 75
Sp 71
ST 69

by **beltic caldy** » Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:51

naw, no bother re recording - know what you mean - i'm trying to get my head around a way of playing in HD and recording at lower-res...unsure if possible - or even recording in HD....I have both a vid capture card in PC (PCI jobbie) and also a DVD Recorder...but my knowledge levels in this area are poor. Really want to get a solution sorted tho - been too many great matches that would love to be able to rewatch.

Nice one on your Roger char man - very impressive - your volley, which you seemed use sparingly (thankfully!) was lethal!!!

Gotta get a female char sorted out bro!!!!

by **Rob ITST** » Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:11

If you connect your Xbox to your TV using the component cable (red/blue/green) then you can connect the regular composite cable (yellow) to your DVD recorder or capture card at the same time. The problem is that the Xbox will not send a signal to the composite cable when you have it set to HDTV, so you would have to play in SD.

If your TV has a video output, then you can connect that to your DVD/capture card, but most TV's don't have a video output.

If your DVD/capture card has an HD component input, then you might be able get 3 "Y" splitters to split the three component cables and send them to both your TV and DVD/capture card at the same time. I haven't tried that though, but it might work. Y splitters are cheap, so it's worth a shot.

The last option is to connect your Xbox directly to you DVD/capture card and then connect the DVD/capture card to the TV. It could cause a delay in the signal being sent to your TV though, and that would make it nearly impossible to play.

by **MasterJoe1988 BANNED** » Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:20

Beltic u do have some epics haha, bet u was giving it the old Come On & fist chest pumps lool against Drago!

by **beltic caldy** » Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:45

might have been...lol!!!

by **MasterJoe1988 BANNED** » Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:50

haha forgot about recording your matches rather record yourself in these battles!!

by **beltic caldy** » Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:09

lol!!! thing is, i do that already....i'm just too shy to post them.

ah sod it, here we go then (i'm the smaller guy in navy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kwXttV1a1E

by **MasterJoe1988 BANNED** » Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:42

LEGEND!! ah mate we gotta have a match its 1-1 between us two in itst! I remember our last match well it was in sim tourny

by **Saarbrigga** » Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:12

beltic caldy wrote:Drago, you are a force to be reckoned with sir, MS and WS and no doubt MSS too - thanks again for an amazing, amazing match

Thx for your kind words man! It was really a tough fight.

It was my second hardest fight since start ITST. The hardest was against Moralspain at the French Open this year, 3-6 4-6 7-6 7-6 7-6, i didn t break him once, but won the match with much luck. :oops:

You fought great Beltic! It was not my fault you won the match, it was your own power! When you was down 4-6 4-5 15-40, you hit many great shots and got my.

So it was a very deserved victory for you!

by **beltic caldy** » Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:04

very gracious of you to say drago - this was the match that formally forced me to start playing with risk : ) a great great match and looking forward to many more : )

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