2010 TS3 Sim Tours - The "List"

[Chederer]

risking can be addictive---sometimes i find myself risking when i could just hit a clean safe shot

[DarkPaladin87]

i just played coke with J.(ennifer) Lopez against his Thompson and i won 7-5 2-6 6-4. It was an awesome match with long rallies from both parties. I must have hit like 40 volley winners , i am still kinda shocked i beat coke4. But i was lucky as he had many breakpoints but couldn't convert many (perhaps you couldn't handle my S&V on the ad side of the court?).

Sorry i ignored you before petrelli but i was playing coke at that time but we can play tomorrow perhaps

I find in lopez the perfect character for me, i will use him intensively during sim tour.

[petrelli83]

Sorry i ignored you before petrelli but i was playing coke at that time but we can play tomorrow perhaps

no prob
today I played 3-4 matches against coke,josenylund,alex...
I lost everymatch
Btw I played with bishop and I think He will be my player...great groundstroke and return...worst sv.but it's not a problem to me.I got broken even if I use high sv...my serve sucks

[alex13090]

Sorry i ignored you before petrelli but i was playing coke at that time but we can play tomorrow perhaps

no prob
today I played 3-4 matches against coke,josenylund,alex...
I lost everymatch
Btw I played with bishop and I think He will be my player...great groundstroke and return...worst sv.but it's not a problem to me.I got broken even if I use high sv...my serve sucks

Well i don't know about the others but against me it was a tight match. You got to serve for the 2nd set at 5-3. (but somehow I broke back) don't make it sound that bad

[petrelli83]

Sorry i ignored you before petrelli but i was playing coke at that time but we can play tomorrow perhaps

no prob
today I played 3-4 matches against coke,josenylund,alex...
I lost everymatch
Btw I played with bishop and I think He will be my player...great groundstroke and return...worst sv.but it's not a problem to me.I got broken even if I use high sv...my serve sucks

Well i don't know about the others but against me it was a tight match. You got to serve for the 2nd set at 5-3. (but somehow I broke back) don't make it sound that bad

In the second set with u,I played my best tennis,one of my best stes ever...but it wasn't enough...u r still too good for me...after I broke u I knew U broke me again...and it happens as I thought on 5-3...

[petrelli83]

I noticed that many guys here are thinking to play with nakamura.
To me he is very similar to grey.Their best weapons is return.
But noone seems to chose him.why?I think they r too similar but nakamura has best st that makes him much better.So I wonder if he will be used by anyone...
What do u think?I'm asking that to everyone...

[DarkPaladin87]

I find Nakamura a pure baseliner with good power and reasonable groundstrokes. His only weakness are volleys (which baseliners don't use anyway, globally speaking). The rest of his stats are above 60 and imho above 60 in sim is above avarage.

I think people prefer baseliners like bishop, house, six, bashmakov(funny name btw), maybe cannon because they have a 90 in groundstroke. On regular tour everyone uses 90 setups on FH\BH\PW and in sim they more or less want the same because that's their strenght, to dominate from baseline. They don't care about a 90 return, they can return pretty good too with let's say 60-70.

In short nakamura lacks pure power if you take the other baseliners into consideration.

[Moralspain]

I find Nakamura a pure baseliner with good power and reasonable groundstrokes. His only weakness are volleys (which baseliners don't use anyway, globally speaking). The rest of his stats are above 60 and imho above 60 in sim is above avarage.

I think people prefer baseliners like bishop, house, six, bashmakov(funny name btw), maybe cannon because they have a 90 in groundstroke. On regular tour everyone uses 90 setups on FH\BH\PW and in sim they more or less want the same because that's their strenght, to dominate from baseline. They don't care about a 90 return, they can return pretty good too with let's say 60-70.

In short nakamura lacks pure power if you take the other baseliners into consideration.

Well i use Sixx not because he has 90 on FH or BH i like it because he has 88 on speed and it´s short (5'9")...so your statement can not be applied to everyone.

[DarkPaladin87]

I find Nakamura a pure baseliner with good power and reasonable groundstrokes. His only weakness are volleys (which baseliners don't use anyway, globally speaking). The rest of his stats are above 60 and imho above 60 in sim is above avarage.

I think people prefer baseliners like bishop, house, six, bashmakov(funny name btw), maybe cannon because they have a 90 in groundstroke. On regular tour everyone uses 90 setups on FH\BH\PW and in sim they more or less want the same because that's their strenght, to dominate from baseline. They don't care about a 90 return, they can return pretty good too with let's say 60-70.

In short nakamura lacks pure power if you take the other baseliners into consideration.

Well i use Sixx not because he has 90 on FH or BH i like it because he has 88 on speed and it´s short (5'9")...so your statement can not be applied to everyone.

No surely it doesn't apply to everyone. I made that statement based on my observations on regular tour. Many guys use 90 setups and want to dominate from baseline, only a few(including me) rush to the net to finish off points, hence the choice to pick others over Nakamura.

[Vieira151]

I rush to the net with House.....
Anyway, just played a peach with SoundofSilence. I won 6-7 6-3 6-3. The only downside i found to this match was my serve in the first set. Every button serve was out, and my stick serves weren't close enough to the lines. and 6 doubles

Anyway, we both played some great points and he recoreded it, and i believe he is currently editing it. I hit some of my best shots ever, like doubles risked forehand running shots up the line from really wide positions and nadal like passing shots He served cleverly when he needed it, and it counted, i only converted 6 break points, out of a possible 22 . He got 3 breaks aswell, all in the 1st set. it was strange.

1st Set We both held until 3-3, then we each broke 3 times to make it 6-6. I had a set point in the breaker, but my backhand missed a risk and he capitalised to go thorugh 10-8 in the breaker.

2nd Set We both held till 2-2, then i broke and went 4-2 up. He then held, i held then i broke a second time to take the set 6-3. There was a lot of pressure on both of our serves, a lot of battled points. My serve was better this set, with only 2 doubles being commited and an improvement of 10%points won on 1st serve.

3rd Set We both held serve until 3-2, but im pretty sure we had to each save many break points. I broke then held to go 5-2 up. He held serve then i held serve, with some resistance from Sound to win the match. It was a great match, with many backhand to backhand rallies(weak wings ). I think it was my 81 stamina that won it

I felt it was a pretty tactical match, and i thoroughly enjoyed. I think i may stick with House I will probably try some defensive baseliners like Tompson etc

[jayl0ve]

You had 22 frickin break points!!??? I've never played a tennis match (real or video game) with that many break point opportunities!!

[Vieira151]

He had like 12/13 i think roughly


May i just add that we both had round about 50 winners each and about 30 unforced each. Most of them from our weak wings

[fedfan]

Played fedfan again in another 1 set exhibition, Both with lopez but it was hilarious as his is based on him whereas mine is columbian and looks like the love child of tsonga and yannick noah. I won 6-4 but overall returned poorly, while fedfan was having trouble with his 1st serve. i like how lopez has no real weakness but i cant SV with him at all lol.

I can't serve with him but I cannot work out why. I've settled on Cannon as my first choice SIM player but am still trying to find a decent alternative.

[djarvik]

I find Nakamura a pure baseliner with good power and reasonable groundstrokes. His only weakness are volleys (which baseliners don't use anyway, globally speaking). The rest of his stats are above 60 and imho above 60 in sim is above avarage.

I think people prefer baseliners like bishop, house, six, bashmakov(funny name btw), maybe cannon because they have a 90 in groundstroke. On regular tour everyone uses 90 setups on FH\BH\PW and in sim they more or less want the same because that's their strenght, to dominate from baseline. They don't care about a 90 return, they can return pretty good too with let's say 60-70.

In short nakamura lacks pure power if you take the other baseliners into consideration.

Well i use Sixx not because he has 90 on FH or BH i like it because he has 88 on speed and it´s short (5'9")...so your statement can not be applied to everyone.

No surely it doesn't apply to everyone. I made that statement based on my observations on regular tour. Many guys use 90 setups and want to dominate from baseline, only a few(including me) rush to the net to finish off points, hence the choice to pick others over Nakamura.

I agree with Xavi here. I didn't use 90 strokes in regular tour and I plan on using House with 90 BH. The reason being that part of what I am looking for in a SIM rule is being able to startegize a bit more. Having 57 FH and 90 BH is a great challenge if you play someone who knows how to exploit your weaknesses. Soon we will all learn how to exploit each weakness.

Nakamura to me is a very good baseliner. The key to successful play with him is to learn to return with no risk, learn to direct returns to a weaker wing and get on top in a rally. Nakamura should be a nightmare for House. Houses 59 serve can be easily returned and directed to his 57 FH by Nakamura, taking advantage on serve.

I think anyone blindly looking for that magical 90 number will be disappointed. All 90's are extremely well balanced and give way in other stats. I would even say that in the long run, the players that are more balanced and have above average volley will do best on the tour.[list=][/list]

[tonedawg1]

i played petrilli83 and won 7-6 7-6 we pretty much held serve comfortably and his volleys are very good i got a couple of lucky risk shots in