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Postby nitoflament » Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:15

I think maximo is a particular case, he has the best service of the entire circuit and is his merit, I played against many lefties and none is as complicated as he is, maximo has an excellent timing and I congratulate him, I always try to read the service and anticipate it, but it is too difficult lol
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Postby maximo » Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:39

nitoflament wrote:I think maximo is a particular case, he has the best service of the entire circuit and is his merit, I played against many lefties and none is as complicated as he is, maximo has an excellent timing and I congratulate him, I always try to read the service and anticipate it, but it is too difficult lol

Thanks for your words mate :wink:
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Postby tonedawg1 » Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:53

there are certain serves only a few players can hit :D like nito said maximos serve is hard to read and his out wide slice is the best there is
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Postby coke4 » Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:28

I dunno, i remember djarvik when he had a left, his serve was completely untouchable, then he went back to be a right hander, and his serve was still amazing but not even close to being as good as it was
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Postby brgerflipr » Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:44

i know you don't like to use it as much anymore, but coke's outwide serve was disgustingly nasty. it was awesome.

i'm sure if he wanted to abuse it, he'd dominate.

i'd put coke's serve right up there w/ maximo's.
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Postby maximo » Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:27

I've always heard that left-handers have an advantage in tennis with his serve because they can give more angle, as we all know this is totally false, but also might get more angle to his forehand or his backhand, is not it? This myth is also heard in other sports such as martial arts, (I practice a couple of them and i know what I say) but in fact, there isn´t a physical advantage by being a lefty, and it isn´t different in this game, the reason is simply because the number of left-handers is much lower than the right-handed, so for a lefty to play or fight with a right handed is normal, while for a right-handed is something that is out of the ordinary, this is the only reason because a lefty has "advantage", you see top 100 in ATP, only 11 or 12 players are lefties, i don´t think that in TS3 lefties out wide services are better than right handed, probably is something mental.
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Postby jayl0ve » Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:57

lol @ this whole thing.
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Postby coke4 » Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:17

maximo wrote:I've always heard that left-handers have an advantage in tennis with his serve because they can give more angle, as we all know this is totally false, but also might get more angle to his forehand or his backhand, is not it? This myth is also heard in other sports such as martial arts, (I practice a couple of them and i know what I say) but in fact, there isn´t a physical advantage by being a lefty, and it isn´t different in this game, the reason is simply because the number of left-handers is much lower than the right-handed, so for a lefty to play or fight with a right handed is normal, while for a right-handed is something that is out of the ordinary, this is the only reason because a lefty has "advantage", you see top 100 in ATP, only 11 or 12 players are lefties, i don´t think that in TS3 lefties out wide services are better than right handed, probably is something mental.


Again i have to disagree, in this game there is a physical difference. You just said that you always heard that people, such as commentators say there is a difference. Now if they believe it, then it is highly likely a game developer, who most likely knows NOTHING about tennis, would hear this and make it so it is physically better.
I am almost one hundred percent sure it is a physical advantage to be a lefty, I know of others who used to be lefty and changed as they found it too easy. I was testing a Bashmakov once and i made him as a lefty and i felt a huge disadvantage
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Postby coke4 » Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:38

Just lost to Drii, he was a lefty with 71 on serve, he won 87% of 1st serve points and hit 7 aces, thats better than these following right handers with top serves ever did to me with higher serve stats: TOMO, Djarvik, Tonedawg, Likos, Lonamar, Matt, Nitoflament and many more. Does this mean Drii has a significantly better serve then all these players?
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Postby maximo » Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:11

brgerflipr wrote:i think the only advantage is that it's different. lefties are used to seeing righties everywhere. but righties are not used to seeing lefties. no other advantage if you ask me.

some say that the lefty slice serve outwide to the BH is difficult, but it's the same as the righty slice outwide to lefties' BH. all the same to me.

i agree with that, and coke, u have your opinion, i don´t want u change it, but i don´t agree, how i have said several times, the players i have more problems with their services are righties, btw, Matt is lefty.
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Postby coke4 » Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:47

maximo wrote:
brgerflipr wrote:i think the only advantage is that it's different. lefties are used to seeing righties everywhere. but righties are not used to seeing lefties. no other advantage if you ask me.

some say that the lefty slice serve outwide to the BH is difficult, but it's the same as the righty slice outwide to lefties' BH. all the same to me.

i agree with that, and coke, u have your opinion, i don´t want u change it, but i don´t agree, how i have said several times, the players i have more problems with their services are righties, btw, Matt is lefty.


I know he is now, i played him as a righty, broke him3 times in 2 sets, playd him as a ledfty, couldnt get a b/p
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