How to return big serve well ?

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How to return big serve well ?

Postby Xogador » Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:26

I played few matches on World Tour online when gamers play with their own developed players and more often then not they serve insanly good (definitely better than Ivo Karlovic in real life). Very often it's impossible to return and my player is rather defensive. It's like 80% of their serves is with perfect timing and into the corner of the box. Every day more gamers play like this.

Anyone can return these serve well ? How to do that ? What is the best way to return flat service ?
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Postby ItaStallion » Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:20

perfect timing slice or top spin deep into the court......

but the people you are talking about are insanely slow just take them to a tiebreak get a minibreak beat them and they will never use that player online again.
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Postby DMG100 » Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:01

perfect timed flat return and topspin works - the slice seems to just float back and they can rip it apart. If they have a high serve rating, but you can read their serve and guess correctly much of the time, you can really do some damage with topspin returns.

I actually stand back from the baseline and use topspin, it works for me.
Seems I can't cross that threshold just yet :(
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Postby kyuuji » Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:42

Topspin are much better I think against big servers.
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Postby Rob ITST » Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:50

Of all the tips, I only see one that everyone agrees on: Perfect timing.
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Postby kyuuji » Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:30

Rob ITST wrote:Of all the tips, I only see one that everyone agrees on: Perfect timing.


yup, this the key :)
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Postby jayl0ve » Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:12

'At first it was a little bit frightening....those cats had expert timing'

name that song sans Google and earn my lifelong admiration
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Postby Coolhand Texas » Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:15

Carlos Douglas- Kung fu fighting. the only think i listen to when playing TS4 :wink:

Did i win? :lol:
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Postby jayl0ve » Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:22

Goddamnit.


:lol:

'SANS' is french for 'Without' coolhand!! Without Google! :lol:

Although you did call him 'Carlos Douglas' when his name is actually 'Carl Douglas' so maybe you didn't!

I also got the line slightly wrong anyways so...blah
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Postby Coolhand Texas » Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:26

Haha honestly though the song is on my ipod. :lol:
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Postby SlicerITST » Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:20

\'Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.\'
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