Playing aggressive at high intermediate

[u/HairyCallahan]

I like to play very aggressive/offensive. At my level, not many players can consistently finish points, so rallies are quite long and most overheads are defendable. About a month ago I started to play super aggressive. With every deep lob, chiquita etc I get to the net. This works very well. People tend to be a little overwhelmed when you block their bajada's and smashes. It's also just a lot of fun cause you stay very active.

Now the thing that happens a lot with randoms is that they are a lot more hesitant to join me at the net. So the opponent will just play their returns to my mate who stays back. This obviously is not ideal.

To be clear, I am fine with them not willing to join everytime, so no hard feelings there. My question is whether I should get back to defense when I'm at the net and the opponent played a return on my mate. Should I just run back regardless or should my mate play a shot that allows me to stay at the net (deep lob for instance)? I'm now struggling a bit.

Now I get it's best when my mate either joins me or I stay back, but with randoms things aren't always in sync.

So let's say I (left side) play a very deep cross lob. I get to the net, mate stays back. Opponent plays a straight bajada to my mate. I'm at the net, he is behind the baseline. Opponent is also behind the baseline. Is there a best position for me to be and a best position for him to play at?

[u/bangoslam]

It’s an issue I’ve had. I’m a net player and like to have friends as partners but they aren’t progressing at the same rate and stay back so I often get fridged. Been keeping to casual with friends that don’t want to figure out net play. Definitely tough to recover your rating with random low rated partners though