The Exhibition Thread

[Amazing Matheja]

Well Gunz..To tell you the truth i didn(t foud our match that fun... Hope you won't take it bad...It's just that i'm not found of the "Serve-Hit-Fault/Winner" kind of match we had...It's true that we manage to both hold our serves nicely but it was quite quickly boring to me...No offense man...
I really enjoy more playing with that Sim set up cause i can manage to play some rallies and,wether i win or loose,it's always some fun!
I don't think i'll play a lot of 90-40 set up again (except for Gran Slams...)

[jayl0ve]

Yeah that kind of thing is not fun, I just had one of those matches myself, no rallies, very boring...

[Gunz Buz n LustBANNED]

Ah sorry you felt that way lad. I certainly didnt see it like that, I guess our gamestyles and preferences just dont match like. The thing is though, if i expect to do well on this 90-40 tour and even contend with anyone in the Top 50 I have to play this high risk kind of game I employed against your player to get any sort of dividends in terms of a getting a break, as Im reasonably confident that I can hold serve usually (although Setheleh tonight, will prove that my theory is severely flawed ). I do enjoy playing no risk full of rallies though, but returning in Topspin 3 I find most effective by varying returns with LT and RT, and really having a hit or miss kind of approach as Im definitely not skilled enough to return normally.

[Coolhand Texas]

ahh the key to risk returns is in the force, young one

[Gunz Buz n LustBANNED]

I'll use the force jar jar

[Coolhand Texas]

Im sure you are fine, with your returning. We havent played, woud you be for an exo sometime?

[Gunz Buz n LustBANNED]

Yeah Im definitely up for it. Im unfortunately at work at the moment (dumb internship), but Ill send you a FR later today if you are up for it m8. Cheerio

[VillaJ100]

I think the 90 tour would be successful idf everyone had a max of 70 power. 90 on groundstrokes gets plenty of power and spin, and the points saved on power could be used on speed, stamina, thereby creating rallies

[jayl0ve]

Played 'Mitro222', UGH.

6'9, stacked giant character with a humongous, 145 mph serve that he never missed...I had about 5 break points but he hit aces every single time to save them....I was in every single service game of his but I just could NOT break him, which is even more frustrating considering that I won about 3 or 4 of my service games AT LOVE, with him barely even touching the ball, even though I was serving a good 20-25 mph slower than him I lost 6-7 (5). Anyways ,fair player and all that, just really really insanely dull to play against.

[Gunz Buz n LustBANNED]

Hes my next oppenent in the US Open .

[jayl0ve]

Well, good luck, you are probably going to need some on his service games. I think his character had something like 50 (!) in speed, which I doubt he'd use in an ITST tournament, but who knows. I couldn't figure out any way to exploit his complete lack of speed. When we were actually in a rally, I felt completely comfortable and could even just simply wait for him to miss and not feel any pressure that he was going to hit a winner out of nowhere or something like that... but the trick is actually getting in a rally.

[Rob ITST]

I assume you played his "non-ITST" character. With 100 power and serve or something like that?

[jayl0ve]

Yeah, I think so.

[Gunz Buz n LustBANNED]

Yeah I hear he has a massive serve. Exploiting his lack of speed can only be done anyway once youre in a rally, I think more than half the battle is won if you return his serve effectively, which I hope I can do. I sense a lot of tiebreaks however, which only does really come down to a few points.

*A thought just occured to me while I'm sitting here bored at work, Mitro could very well be the next John Isner of ITST

[jayl0ve]

He's definitely not a fun guy to lose to. I was left kind of scratching my head after the match, wondering how I could not give him ANY break point chances, yet still lose Very frustrating.