Tennis Elbow 2011 Match Stories Thread

[VMoe86]

Short Accelerations are the wrong tactic against Simon: He is fast and he when he gets to them he can return them with more pace. One has to play smart against him and being mentally tough is key. Here the .dmo from my match against him last week:

http://depositfiles.com/files/znafycqs0

[kyuuji]

Hmm well it depends, actually in my opinion trying short accelerations could work.
Against Otlichno it was very hard as he plays with the lines


Just won against eliomelma 6/3 6/4
First set I was leading 3/0, he came back to 3/3. I felt like I couldn't win the points as he plays a lot with the top spin, I just need to play on his forehand and I'm finish, well I was trying to get winners but instead of getting winners I was making errors, as I always say, short acceleration really helped me.

Second set at 4/4, he could have lead 5/4 and win the set, thanks for his BAD first service !


Here's a TIP:


In this pic, it shows in blue where my racket goes to hit the ball.
And in black where the ball goes.


Let's call this a "glitch" as you can see, I'm not placed well, but if you are place like that and using top spin (and the side) you will be able to get a good angle, short top spin like in the next pic:



You're opponent will be out of the court, and you can get enough space to finish the point


I often use this tip, and for me it works well.

[eliomelma]

Us Mens Clay Court Championship final:
Eliomelma vs Kyuuji 3-6 4-6
First set i go 0-3 soon, make many errors and seems to be unbeatable for me and my goal is don't lose with a hard result. So i change my strategy, against him you can't make the points in 4-5 rallies and so i decide to play every points as a great battle and i begin to hit very high top spins to his backhand and i go to 3-3. My mental stamina at this point was low and i lose my service and he ends on 6-3. Second set was another history. We go on 3-1 for him, 3-2,4-2 and i platy at this point my best tennis, he makes many errors and i give him many troubles and the result go to 4-4. This the first moment of my 2 matches against him that i fell i can win a set. Before the match my goal was that don't lose 6-0 6-0 and to win at least 2-3 games for set, but on 4-4 i felt that the unbeatable, at least for this set, become beatable and i can win the set. But i spend all my energy to go on 4-4 and he makes 5-4 easy. On 5-4 i serve very bad, i put only one first service in and he plays the game incredible well with extreme angles and win the match. He plays all the match on my backand, controls the point from baseline and really a great player. but i feel that i gave to him a real match. Congrats to him and congrats for his fair play.There is the video below (excuse me for bad english).
http://depositfiles.com/files/epcofu9nq

[VMoe86]

Played again against eliomelma, this time in a different match-up: Me as Tsonga and him -- as usual -- as Federer. With Tsonga it is about as difficult as with Fish to hit winners, more difficult to defend and that serve on clay doesn't help much. Still I played a very good first set until I had triple break point and one more break point, but from then on I got more impatient and at times even furious because I was getting aced quite a few times when I "fiddled" Tsonga on the return to prevent Desyncs. The second set I didn't compete anymore because of that.

Really, in that one match no Desyncs at all, this time on the host's serve -- I'd really like to know why this happens.

Some say one should give the opponent a point when a Desync occurs on an ace, but at the same time the returner -- trying to prevent Desyncs -- faces the problem that his opponent will place the serve right in the opposite direction into which I moved a bit.

[Otlichno]

How do you open .dmo files?

[Ugadalou]

How do you open .dmo files?

http://www.managames.com/Forum/topic29-2061.php

[VMoe86]

Ok, Ugadalou was quicker.

In our case you go to the "Profiles" folder and do the steps for "ITST.ini".

[eliomelma]

Played again against eliomelma, this time in a different match-up: Me as Tsonga and him -- as usual -- as Federer. With Tsonga it is about as difficult as with Fish to hit winners, more difficult to defend and that serve on clay doesn't help much. Still I played a very good first set until I had triple break point and one more break point, but from then on I got more impatient and at times even furious because I was getting aced quite a few times when I "fiddled" Tsonga on the return to prevent Desyncs. The second set I didn't compete anymore because of that.
Really, in that one match no Desyncs at all, this time on the host's serve -- I'd really like to know why this happens.

Some say one should give the opponent a point when a Desync occurs on an ace, but at the same time the returner -- trying to prevent Desyncs -- faces the problem that his opponent will place the serve right in the opposite direction into which I moved a bit.

Yes as my opponent says the first set was very tough, too i had many breaks points.Tsonga has very powerful wings and he create some troubles to me.The second is without history. I would say that my aces were not volunteer,and i hit 8 aces in the match. just for focus hit. Without desync it will be a beautiful match. I am sorry that my opponent was annoying, i say him that if he wants he can host the game and replay the match but him says no.i asked him this because i play for fun and i want another beautiful match against him as the previous. sorry again and hope that new patch can resolve this problems.

[L Sanchez MD]

Decent match with Dimina8 there in Monte Carlo.
New TE build out today... game ran but with a lot of desyncs on service as usual.
The desyncs are incredibly frustrating, as they can rob you of aces or your opponent's double faults etc.
There was some good fair play from both of us today which helped, but still, desyncs almost ruin the whole experience.

Good long baseline rallies. I started out a bit unsecure of the aiming, because the last match, lag ruined it. I got broken in the first game, but after that, we settled into a fair rhythm. Monfils (Dimina8) was able to retrieve almost all of my powerful shots, so I had to try to move him side to side to open a big enough gap to hit a winner into.
Dimina used some nice dropshots and volleys at times to catch me out, which worked well.

Stats:

[C4iLL]

The desync are annoying, sometimes I prefer playing offline than online personally

[Elias]

The desync are annoying, sometimes I prefer playing offline than online personally

Well i agree the conditions required for running a tour are definitely not met at this time. Patch is not ready so we get a lot of desynchs, the roster is far from being balanced.. why continue to launch tournaments before having a solid environment to start with ?

[djarvik]

This is my fault. My HD went down last week and I spent the weekend installing a new one and trying to salvage the info from old one. I am almost done.

I will do all the updates as soon as I am able to. The tournaments will continue to run and I will be giving a few extra days per round if needed, to compensate for connection issues.

Sorry guys, just a bit overwhelmed at the moment...

[VMoe86]

the roster is far from being balanced.. why continue to launch tournaments before having a solid environment to start with ?

Regarding balancement of the roster: It would be helpful if more players here used a variety of players and not just those with whom they can play the best.

I think that speed of players in general has to be adjusted, for instance. There is a reason why in "Realistic" Mode all stats are limited to 90%. Maybe we should adjust the roster to "Realistic" or "Fair" mode?

[Elias]

For a start i think chars should have approx the same points distributed, trying also to keep signature shots as best as possible. Slight differences should be ok, but only *slight*, right now there is too large differences between some chars. Also specific char styles known to be superior should be tweaked (by lowering some stats) to get them on par with other roster chars (eg . counter, defender).

Human controlled balance tests would be useful if all people playing had the same level but it's not the case, imo the best way to do some balance tests is to run cpu vs. cpu matches ( i asked Manutoo for this and he advised me to use difficulty rating in between pro 10 and master 10 for this, because out of these boundaries, the game will modify the fixed char stats). I'm actually running several match-ups cpu vs. cpu in master 10 level on a spare computer and will post all the first results pretty soon.

[L Sanchez MD]

For a start i think chars should have approx the same points distributed, trying also to keep signature shots as best as possible. Slight differences should be ok, but only *slight*, right now there is too large differences between some chars. Also specific char styles known to be superior should be tweaked (by lowering some stats) to get them on par with other roster chars (eg . counter, defender).

Human controlled balance tests would be useful if all people playing had the same level but it's not the case, imo the best way to do some balance tests is to run cpu vs. cpu matches ( i asked Manutoo for this and he advised me to use difficulty rating in between pro 10 and master 10 for this, because out of these boundaries, the game will modify the fixed char stats). I'm actually running several match-ups cpu vs. cpu in master 10 level on a spare computer and will post all the first results pretty soon.

Great idea! Looking forward to hearing the match scores.