On two matches I lost recently, I thought I hadn't taken advantage of my opponent's serve.
One had a pretty short and dinky with a some weird spin (she had some shoulder problem).
The other one had a powerful first serve which I had to block, but her second serve was easy with some kind of spin (which I blocked anyway, but I didn't realize until later that I should have tried to topspin it back, which was harder for her...)
I just realized that if I can tell their serve is going to be slow, then I should prepare my grip properly (western forehand grip), and take most advantage of it.
I think my mistake was to make a safe return, and not doing anything with it, not aggressive enough.
My question is: on easy serves, should I be trying to rip every return, or should I play it safe and go for a well placed return?
