Pygame collision not occuring perfectly

Question

I have created a pong game in Pygame.

I have done the basic collision between the ball and the bat/racket.

The collision is not perfect because sometimes if the ball hit the top/bottom edge of the bat/racket, the ball goes inside the racket/bat.

The collision is between two rect.

The code for collision is:

    if self.player.rect.colliderect(self.ball.rect):
        self._ball_hit()
    if self.player_1.rect.colliderect(self.ball.rect):
        self._ball_hit()

Basically the "self._ball_hit()"

Changes the ball direction

I have tried giving a specific position i.e. topright to the bat/racket but I get this error:

if self.player.rect.toprigth.colliderect(self.ball.rect.left):

AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'colliderect'

Is there another way to approach the collision?

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