Attacking the One-Handed Backhand

◆1. Use the High Ball

The single best attack against most one-handers is the high, deep ball, especially if it has heavy topspin. Your opponent will usually hit, at best, a weak reply. This will set you up for an easy put-away if you come to the net.

The one-hander's best defense against this attack is to hit your ball on the rise, but on high, topspun balls, this requires considerable skill. Most players won't hit these well on the rise, and against them, the deeper your shot, the better. You'll force them to back up too far to hit any kind of aggressive reply.

If your opponent does show some skill at hitting on the rise, try making your heavily topspun ball land several feet short of his baseline, where it will then jump up before he can intercept it.

This can be risky, though. If you hit too short or too flat, you'll be the one fending off an attack.

All of the same principles can be translated from your groundstrokes to your serve, if you are capable of hitting a good kick serve. Hit it fairly deep with plenty of spin so that it jumps up high, then follow it to net if you're comfortable with serve-and-volley. Boris Becker used this tactic extremely well in his Wimbledon, Australian Open, and US Open triumphs.

◆2. Cause Lateness

The second biggest weakness of a one-handed backhand is its vulnerability to being late. The proper contact point for a one-hander is farther forward than for any other groundstroke. You can often make your opponent late by hitting a ball with extra speed, obviously enough, but extra topspin or extra slice can cause the same effect.

Topspin will make the ball slow down less when it bounces, thus getting to your opponent earlier than a flat ball would, given the same air speed. If your opponent has not read the spin properly, he will be surprised by how quickly the ball arrives.

Slice has the opposite effect on the ball's bounce: it makes the ball slow down more. This, in itself, would tend to make your opponent swing too early, but if you hit slices deep and fairly fast, you can also make your opponent swing late.

Slice makes a ball carry farther through the air, so an opponent who fails to read the spin properly will expect the ball to land shorter than it does. When the ball lands unexpectedly deep, he will often be unable to meet it far enough in front of himself to hit it well.

One-handers are less vulnerable to being jammed or stretched out wide than two-handers, but they are far from impervious to these attacks. Try jamming and stretching all of your opponents on both their backhands and their forehands.

How to Beat a Two-Hander

Try the following against the backhand side of your two-handed opponents:

* Hit low, especially slice, groundstrokes. When two-handers reach too low, they either have to bend at the waist, which puts them off balance, or bend at the knees, which puts their legs in the way of their swing. The sliced approach shot is a particularly good weapon.

* Hit groundstrokes and serves out wide to the backhand side. Two-handers can't stretch for wide balls as easily as one-handers, because they can't use the width of their torso for extra extension. When you can force a two-hander to let go and hit with one hand, she will often hit a weak ball. If one of you is a righty and the other a lefty, your wide slice serve will go to her backhand, often forcing a weak reply.

* Try to jam your opponent by hitting into the body. This is especially effective if you use sidespin to curve serves or groundstrokes from comfortably out on the opponent's backhand side to uncomfortably close on the same side. The opponent will think he's getting an easy ball, then suddenly find himself jammed. It's hard to hit balls coming right into your body with two hands.

* If your opponent volleys with two hands, which is rare among better players, try each of the ideas above when she's at the net. Balls low, wide, and at the body are all especially tough to hit well with a two-handed volley.

* A good, short drop shot will be tough on any opponent who hasn't learned how to use one hand in this kind of situation. The balance problems two-handers encounter on low balls in general become much more severe when, on a dead run, they're trying to save a drop shot an instant before its second bounce.

DJ先生離職對C總下屆之遴聘可能影響？

【Card 1】：4 of Wands(Past influences having bearing)
【Card 2】：Princess of Disks/(Now the influences surrounding)
【Card 3】：8 of Cups/(Future influence having bearing)
【Card 4】：Knight of Cups/(What to do)
【Card 5】：10 of Wands/(External influences having bearing)
【Card 6】：Aces of Swords/(Hopes and fears)
【Card 7】：7 of Cups/(Final outcome of this situation)

◆ The Interpretation：09/01/2008

【Card 1】：4 of Wands 牌中上方金星符號 (Venus)和下方的白羊座(Aries)符號，代表金星在白羊座。
4支權杖一端的羊頭，代表白羊座也代表爭鬥，象徵新的開始。權杖一端的鴿子代表金星也代表和平，象徵事情已經自然的完成。彼此相容於圓輪上，意味著過去雙方對立的態勢已經平靜緩和了；輪子本身則象徵完成、實現(completion)、和新的開始。
代表過去的關係連結的牌位上，4 of Wands 它暗示在過去的這段時間裡，讓 DJ先生離職的這件事，代表舊的事情已經階段性完成，但C總心中卻感覺到會延伸某件新的情況亟待開始處理。


【Card 2】Princess of Disks牌中很清楚的可以看到Princess左手持Isis女神的玫瑰圓盤，上面有陰、陽的符號，代表取得內外在的平衡；右手持發光的水晶棒指向地面、和背後高聳入天際的樹林發光的根部，都暗示像光一樣清晰的洞見被導引到象徵徹底、務實的地面上。
Princess of Disks的本質是耐心的等待、孕育。暗示不管是內在、外在，所有事物都是以它們自己的方式在發展，當時機對了自然就會發生，瓜熟地落、水到自然渠成。
Princess of Disks意味著對DJ先生的相關人事處置這件事，是在清晰的洞見下，耐心的等待，待時機自然成熟下所採行的必要行動。


【Card 3】8 of Cups 代表一種怠惰的心境(indolence)，牌面上有缺口的高腳杯有空的，也有些未盛滿水(水代表能量、活力)，陰鬱的天空和暗褐色的水，表示這種怠惰、沈重的心境缺乏生命力，象徵由於在某些方面的過度付出、過度散發的能量，將會讓自己覺得精疲力盡。
在家庭裡或職場中，當一貫的付出太多又回報太少的時候，有這種人際關係的情形下常會出現此牌。
8 of Cups 在代表未來影響的相關位置，土星在雙魚座的符號，暗示C總要知道自己的界線或限度，在你的親密連結關係上你並沒有很多可以給予(超出自己的限度或可能沒有親密的能量了)；在經營人際關係上不要讓自己瀕臨心力交瘁的地步。總之，重要的是要避免在未來心態疲倦下可能引起的這種怠惰心境。


【Card 4】：Knight of Cups在本質上是代表成熟的男性思維、給予的、能分享的。 這張牌出現在代表 what to do 的位置上，它暗示你去採取牌面上的騎士可能會採取的類似行動(actions)。
因此，在面對未來的處境，學習Knight，圓滑的運用外交手腕、經由巧妙的影響力達成目標、在正確的時機說適當的話、而且讓大夥兒快樂的工作在一起；處理事務在情緒上能保持穩定而且牢固、能接受不同的觀點、在危機中展現沉著冷靜的克制力。
Knight of Cups 同時暗示你，不論它是以什麼形式出現在你的人生中，允許你自己接受他的啟示，他的特殊能量將對你有著深遠的意義。



【Card 5】：在與外部的影響相關的位置上的10 of Wands ，中間兩支粗大的權杖是西藏的杵，它代表一股想要控制和壓制的激烈能量，背景中的野火代表不受控制的能量，橘色的背景也暗示像火一般激烈的能量(fiery energies)。
這些象徵來自於外界反對勢力的壓抑能量，可能會導致一種沉重的負擔在C總心頭浮現，而覺得受束縛、受限制。



【Card 6】：Aces of Swords這張牌顯示一個進入清晰、明智的轉捩點。象徵敏銳而且清晰的頭腦、通常代表清晰的洞見。
Ace of Swords 顯示從一種清晰的觀點看事情的能力，讓我們變得更能夠做出好的決定，更清晰的思考事情、因此，出現這張牌時，它指明我們必須退一步用理性的想法反思，去檢視所有橫阻在當前的是什麼？去除無聊的想法和混亂的思緒，運用智慧客觀的分析去面對挑戰。


【Card 7】：The 7 of Cups是一張會矇惑人心的牌，它總是暗示一種誘惑。具誘惑的事物會以很多不同的形式出現，有的較輕微，而有的較令人擔心。
The 7 of Cups 可能出現在當我們有機會可以獲得容易得來的金錢時、或是以不正當的、不道德的方式獲得的事物時的這種類似狀況下。
主要的是涉及感官上的聲色之娛或食物、煙酒、金錢、身份、社會地位。如果我們上當的話，付出的代價將會遠甚於所得到的。
The 7 of Cups 是那些帶有警示作用的牌之一。當遭受到這張牌的作用影響，必須經常採取認真的態度去看待它。當The 7 of Cups 出現時，必定的，我們就可以預期到會受到某種的誘惑或是考驗。同時，必須要提防犯下它警告我們可能犯的錯誤。貪婪、膚淺的劣根性將會使倫理道德屈服，那也是最大的隱憂。要堅定的防衛，抗拒人性的弱點，努力把持正確的判斷力。
牌義顯示最大的敵人不是來自於外面，而是自己的內心。