Game and skills analysis Adam Pattantyus (Hungary)

The following observations are of course my personal view and do not claim to be the “truth”!

Here comes Adam Pattantyus (Hungary):

Strengths:

• good backhand defence
• good footwork
• good forehand defence with occasional use of long pimples
• good choppy forehand push
• very good forehand topspin against backspin pushes
• great variety of good forehand serves often getting him an advantage to get in with a big forehand topspin.
• good twiddling of the bat when pushing on the backhand

Weaknesses:

• Counter forehand topspin to weak and inconsistant
• cannot smash or kill the ball with the forehand in a very consistant manner
• backhand defence on slow and spinny topspins goes up too high too often
• no great variety of backhand serves
• has sometimes problems returning topspins played into his body.
• no means of killing off blocked balls when he attacks
• has problems returning serves with no spin into his backhand when using the pimples

Suggestions:

• should try to defend with the backhand taking the ball lower/later when confronted with heavy spin
• should try to counterspin on the forehand with more sidespin if more consistancy is not feasible in fast counterspin rallies
• should try to get greater variety in backhand serves
• should practice taking topspins into his body mostly with the backhand (long pimples)