WEBTENNIS

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• Serving: press once to throw the ball up, hold to wind up, and it goes when the ball comes down.
• Start early. Hold the button before the ball reaches you: the longer you have been winding up when it arrives, the harder you hit it and the more of your aim survives. A shot thrown at the last moment goes straight back, or into the net.
• Holding the button plants you. While you hold it the stick shapes the shot instead of moving your feet - so working the ball only pays if you are already standing where you need to be. Let go to run again.
• The ring around your player means the ball is in reach, and a paler one means you are planted and winding up.
• Steer while you swing to place it, and keep steering for a second after you hit it to bend it in the air.
• Lob sends it high over somebody at the net - and the CPU will lob you back if you camp there.
• Volley anything up to head height straight out of the air.
• Hit hard to force a mistake: pace takes preparation away from whoever has to answer it.
• Come to the net for much sharper angles - and much less time to react to what comes back.
• You have two serves. Miss both and the point is gone.