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How to defeat a superior (any) opponent

1. Take your time on your serves and returns. Bounce the ball multiple times on your service and raise your racquet on the returns to slow down your opponent’s pace.
    
2. Take all of your allotted time outs to pace yourself and your opponent. Don’t play your opponent’s frantic pace, make them play racquetball one point at a time and they may become antsy and leave up a couple of setups! Think glacial pace a la the tennis great Ivan Lendl.
   
   When Lendl was down in a match at Wimbledon, he would slow down the pace of the game even more by wiping his face with a towel and walking very slowly between rallies and thus conserving energy and forcing his opponent to play his glacial pace. His glacial pace method brought him multiple English championships. It works, try it!
    
3. Play your game and your pace. Avoid playing your opponent’s game and style.
    
4. Always remember to play high percentage racquetball. Don’t change your game just because a fast/tall player like Mike Larson gets to almost everything, move him with high percentage shots and force him to hit the spectacular shots to beat you one point at a time. Remember that your opponent is human and to move him and continue to play high percentage deep ball and finish front court setups.
    
5. Maintain a Relaxed Focus Calm at all times and work hard on each and every rally.
    
6. Get to everything that is not a rolled out and make your opponent earn each and every point with pints and pints of their own sweat.

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