Find your opponents’ weaknesses and exploit them. In the beginning of every game, one of your first priorities should be to find your opponents’ weaknesses. You can do this by making them hit a variety of shots and taking note of what they do well and what they don’t do well. Within the first several rallies, you should try to make your opponents hit drops, drives, dinks, counters, and speedups and pay attention to which shots they miss, which shots they make but execute poorly, and which shots they do well that make you uncomfortable. Once you find the shots that they aren’t good at, make them hit them as much as possible. This will be your baseline strategy, and there is no reason to change it unless your opponent makes adjustments and it stops working.
