There can be a tendency to try to copy tactics from high-level players that the intermediate player does not have the ability to consistently execute.
Tactics: are getting better, as the player needs to concentrate less on his own strokes, and can now spend more time focussing on his opponent. They will still struggle with unusual serves or players that can use good deception when applying spin. 
Spin: intermediate players have got past the frustrating period, and can now apply and adapt to most spin variations. Footwork is faster and used more often, but the player is not always as good at knowing where he should be moving to in order to best prepare for his next stroke. 
Footwork: improves as the intermediate player learns the importance of balance and recovery in allowing multiple attacks. Most intermediate players will have a couple of strengths and a couple of weak points in their game. Strengths/Weaknesses: this is much more even at the intermediate level. Their ball placement is still not so good though. Strokes: intermediate players will make better stroke choices, choosing the correct stroke most of the time. More aggressive players who take more risks and attack more often will rise less quickly in general, improving in level as their attacking consistency gets better. An intermediate player who plays a safe game, taking few risks and making few mistakes, and only attacking easy balls, will rise quickly from beginner status towards the top of the intermediate level players. Points: the ratio between winning points by forcing mistakes and from an opponent's unforced errors becomes evener. Intermediate players will also make more mistakes under pressure than advanced players. Mistakes: the number of unforced errors is less but still significant. To a beginner, just about all of the blades and rubbers are much faster and spinnier than they are used to, so a beginner player is usually happy to use what other players recommend, instead of obsessing about their equipment. 
Equipment: interestingly, equipment is one area where beginners are often closer to advanced players than intermediate players. Rallies vs Serve/Serve Return: beginners tend to view the rallying strokes as the most important and prefer to train these strokes over serve and serve return, which is viewed simply as ways of starting the point. Fitness: the level of play is less dynamic than advanced levels, so fitness plays much less of a role. Beginners also have difficulty executing tactics successfully due to lack of consistency in their strokes. Most of the player's focus is on himself and successfully playing strokes, rather than on what his opponent is doing. Beginners have problems using spin and adapting to an opponent's spin. Spin: in the beginning, level game spin is a magical and frustrating element. They reach for balls instead of taking a small step, and move too far and get too close to balls that are far away. Footwork: new players often move too much or too little. Strengths/Weaknesses: beginner players tend to have more weaknesses in their ping-pong game than strengths. Stroke: beginners often make poor stroke choices, attempting strokes with a low percentage of success, when better options are available. 
Beginners who play safe and try to avoid errors will tend to defeat beginners who attempt to play attacking strokes, due to a number of mistakes their opponents make.
Points: most points are won from an opponent's unforced mistakes, instead of being won by pressuring a mistake from the opponent. Mistakes: beginners make the most mistakes, especially unforced errors.
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