Anyway, I feel that the cpu is not getting any (or very few) clean winners with drops if I'm standing near enough to the baseline and if I use "autoposition trick" (same I would use to receive) to know where the ball is gonna come.
Could be that I'm using Ferrer and he's kinda fast too
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Also,
I'd be totally for having acceleration and speed as separate skills as Ary1g suggested,
It's kinda what I've been saying for months: acceleration (reacting and starting to run) should be increased and speed (running itself) might be decreased (this thinking in the clean game with 100% speed)
That would also do the trick if you don't want to create a new skill (but it'd lead to an unbalanced/unrealistic result with a mod as ITST as it'd affect all the players equally).