Case 3.1 Net approaches other than Server/Receiver

In  these caes a rally is assumed in progress. See infra, on how to continue and finish a rally.

If a rally is progress I will show that you have only limited chances using the net approach.

First of all if your opponent is hitting a vareity of shots such as slicing and top-spin and flat, you do not have much of a net charge at all since a player that can mix shots up must have good control over the ball and will be able to cut your net approach off. An example player is Djokovic. If a rally is in profgress, it will be idle to approach the net since he will sense it before you even attempt it and since his control over the ball is extensive and varied he will easily use a passing shot. In fact, he is capable of putting balls at pretty acute and obtuse angles and can cut you off in the baseline shots (specialy, if your own shots do not have much pace) and easily. So the net approach fails on this count. remember I am talking about top players.

If the opponent is not a super shot-maker or placer but uses ruses and tactics extensively and is a technical player such as Roger Federer, your net approach is certainly futile because he will counter it with his own net charges if he decides he has to draw on that repertoire of his. But notice that he usually does not charge the net since the grond shots are enough to kill the ball and most opponents. He also uses other techniques to blunt your game that I do not want to discuss here since that would be exposing his tactices and he may not appreciate that very much! So we will stay away from that. Suffice it to say that Roger obviously does not have the pace and retrievability of amny other playes but beats them easily. Why? Think about it. You may say how come he cannot beat Nadal. To see the reason, click on the link 'Players' from the drop down menu 'tennis'. Briefly, his PNL is not as high that of Nadal and less than that of many others sjuch as Gil Simone. But he can beat the others because of his second element but this second element is not enough to counteract the PNL of Nadal. Notice that PNL can vary from day to day and there were days Federer did beat Nadal and evn gave him a 6-0 in one of the matches not too long ago. Unfortunatgely you cannot produce/manufacture PNL with just practice. This is getting too technical. Please think for yourself at this point. It is hard to write about all the cases and variations.

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