How did I play today?

Things I was working on:
-Singles strategy
-Forehand looping
-Reverse pendulum forehand serve

I only played two singles today. One versus Vu, and one against Nathan. The rest were a bunch of doubles. Against Vu, I lost to him in five, but I came back from two down. My biggest problem when playing him was service return. If I would have just returned a couple more serves in the last game I probably would have won. My two main strategies against him were to serve backspin and then loop the return push. My other stragegy was to let him try and attack backspin or no spin and most of the time he'd miss. Unfortunately that when he hits it's so wild that I have no chance of getting it back. Next time I play him I should try to attack him forehand more with backspin.

I lost to Nathan in three, but it was more competitive than before. I was able to get some easy points from getting pushes and chops back on my serve. On his serve I did ok, but could still get better at it. Sometimes my concentration would lapse and I wouldn't watch the service motion.

In doubles I was ok, but it was doubles. I almost exclusively used the reserve pendulum today and was able to get heavy backspin short by the end. Hopefully I'll remember the adjustment to my motion I made next time I play. My placement and amount of spin was pretty erratic, but I wasn't missing too many.

In my warmup I tried the darker single ply, but with the rubbers I thought the racket was too slow. Maybe with faster rubbers I could use that blade, but I also felt like it was missing feeling.

Next time I'll try to rediscover the feeling on the reverse forehand pendulum backspin, keep working on my forehand loop with emphasis on adjusting for looping a falling backspin ball and looping inside out, trying serves from different angles, and probing my oppenents forehand with serves in singles.