Can you keep up with a pro?

A shadow-footwork challenge built from real pro matches. Pick a player, press Start and try to move with every shot they played, at the speed they played it. Their rallies, their pace, their rests: nothing is made up or randomised.

There's no score. The only question is whether you're still with them at the end of the rally.

Pick a match, choose whose shots to copy, and press Start, or tap Pick for me and go. Put your screen 2 to 3 metres away with the sound on and stand at your base.

After a 5-second countdown, every beep is your cue to move: get to the spot, play the shot, recover, and be ready for the next beep. Tap the screen or press the space bar to pause, Skip rally moves on to the next one and Previous rally goes back one (the arrow keys do the same).

Getting left behind? Slow it down 25% and skip rallies under 6 shots, then work back to full speed.

• Copy. Whose shots you play. In doubles you copy a pair, and the cues say Player 1 or Player 2, each in their own colour.
• Highlight deception. Turns the screen amber when your pro plays a deceptive shot. Words only.
• Cues. Words name each shot; Arrows point to where it sends you. More on both below.
• Show my shots. Your pro's own shots on screen.
• Show opponent's shots. The shots you're reacting to, in grey. One of the two always stays on, and Arrows keep the opponent's on.
• Slow down. Stretches every gap between shots, up to 100% (twice as long).
• Skip rallies under. Leaves out rallies shorter than the number of shots you set, up to 30.
• Rest between rallies. Match gaps keeps the real time between rallies; Custom sets your own, from 5 seconds to 3 minutes. Slowing down or skipping rallies needs Custom. A break over 2 minutes can be skipped mid-drill.

The list shows the newest tracked matches. Search it by player, event or discipline (singles or doubles) to reach any match in the library, or tap Pick for me for a random one.

Every match also has a full rally-by-rally breakdown in the pro match archive, and the players have profiles listing their tracked matches.

Words name the shot the way the pro played it: side, direction and type. Arrows only show where to go: each one points to the spot the opponent's shot sends you, bounces toward it as it lands, and stays up while you play your reply. Arrows read better from across a room; words teach you what the pro chose.

The red circle is your clock, and it works the same way in both. It pulses on every beep, the moment you have to set off, then shrinks steadily to its smallest on the next beep. It always shrinks at the same speed, so a long gap starts it bigger than the screen. The smaller it gets, the less time you have to recover. It's only there during a rally.

• Words, both sides on. The opponent's shot appears with the beep, then your pro's shot as they hit it.
• Words, my shots only. The beep comes first (the opponent hitting), and the shot name follows when your pro plays it. Move on the beep, not the word.
• Words, opponent's shots only. Each grey shot arrives with its beep: read it and go.
• Arrows. The arrow and the beep arrive together. Show my shots doesn't change what you see.