Played again last night and this morning before work (the sign of a quality game)...
...but I still haven't won a game, let alone a set (forget a match).
It's getting really frustrating - I can get into a position where the opponent is extremely far left/right, and there's a clear opportunity for me to smash it to the opposite side - but despite getting a green dot, it's just never powerful enough to smash the ball and win a point. It's slow enough for them to hit it back, at which point I'm usually too far to the side myself to sprint and manage a return.
I'm holding the right trigger when I want to power a shot, but it's no harder, it would seem. How the hell do you really whack a shot? Other than up your power attribute, which doesn't feel like it should be necessary!
Chris are you in career?
Once your player gets better, stronger, faster etc... all of this clicks into place.
In my career I play all the training ‘games’ before I play a match, so this could be 5 weeks without actually playing a match. For example I may pick Slice Shot, then I will play the first training game, then pick training, then pick the next one and so on etc...
This enables me to practice that type of shot but also it helps me to build up a little money from my sponsor (weekly pay) which may enable me to increase one of my Shot Types by one point depending on the price. Also doing the training enables me to increase my Experience Points which then gives me, I think, 9 points to use on attributes like Power, Stamina, Speed etc... ah man there are five different ones but i cannot check at the moment. You can pick where to use the points but in my sad and sorry state I use a random number generator on my phone to determine where each point is used
It is these points that really help because they make you faster, more powerful etc...
Gradually you notice this in your player as suddenly your shots get more powerful and it is harder for your opponent to return. This reminds me of retro PES when stats mattered, when an increase of 1 point to Acceleration would have a tiny but realistic impact on the player.
Also, before a match you can compare your attributes to your opponent’s. My latest opponent, in that last video i posted has a weak back hand. So i was playing a lot of powerful shots to that side of him. Holding R2 while pressing ‘O’ (on PS4) was quite affective.
After all these excellent tips, meanwhile I am yet to win a match
PS. I just noticed what you said at the end. Why would you not want to up your power? Maybe at the moment your player has a weak arm, he needs to go to the gym. To me it makes sense to up the power to hit a more powerful shot. It’s not like you have to up it by much just 5-10 points for me and i have noticed a slight difference which is a lot in a match.
