When you are playing on a decent club level you come up against a lot of retrievers. Guys that run everything down but don’t give you any pace and you need to hit solid shot after solid shot and after a while you break down completely and start missing. Today I played retriever. He has a solid game, no real strengths except for the willingness to run, but no obvious weaknesses either. I decide to pound on his one-handed backhanded that he insists on blocking back and then go for all short shots. I started out well, winning the first …
