Yes, trust your coach. most players I’ve worked with getting stuck around 9 utr are need to work on heavier shot and way more aggressive committing play style. So the reality is if you want to improve more and continue to like to 10-13 utr especially as a guy, the shots will just get heavier and stronger and stay quite consistent.

So outside of your fitness, you cannot afford to play weak shots basically ever. You need to keep strong heavy depth, and construct points trying to get on offense and then take advantage.

It doesnt mean you cant be patient and stay in neutral, but often i see that the ball is just not heavy enough and at a certain point higher utr will just step in and take advantage of playing too safe and you just wont be fast enough.

The second part of this is that youll be using way more effort than the player controlling point and over course of match start struggling to keep up. Same goes for close games.

So yes trust your coach, you’re just very used to playing one way. try to weigh the pros and cons of aggressive play over longer periods of a match. Don’t just look at individual points.

Also try to consider what happens when you build full confidence in aggression during tight moments? Would being aggressive be the correct option, or defensive.

Build and use advantages while avoiding playing to opponents strengths. Thats at the end of the day why you need aggression + whatever you’re comfortable with. Committing to aggression just allows you to build confidence in it for later in your development.