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Hello to everybody,
When you start playing tennis table, everybody will tell you that whatever you do you need to keep the ball low.
Since any ball exchange starts with a serve, it makes sense to serve short because in this way you can protect yourself from being attacked by your opponent from the beginning.
Everything makes sense until you start playing.
Indeed, a short serve cannot be attacked by your opponent, but the problem is that the opponent has a lot of other options against you for this type of serve.
He can flip it, he can drop the ball short over the net, he can push it short or long and even attack it quite strong with a banana flip for example.
By serving short, in a way, means that you want to take some pressure from the first receive (since the opponent cannot attack it theoretically) so you can focus on the 3rd ball.
The problem is that the opponent has a lot of options against you (the ones above and the one for example where you have to deal with your own spin for a pendulum side-backspin for example ) but since you are an amateur you do not have the necessary skills to properly handle those returns; ideally you should attack the 3rd ball but of course you will not be able to attack a lot of these balls so you will be the one who is going to make a weak return that will give the opportunity to your opponent to attack the 4th ball.
Based on the story above, my question is why not serve long and low?
For a long serve, the opponent most of the times is going to loop it (I am not talking about choppers); it will not push it, it will not drop it, it will not angle the racket at a proper angle to "go" with the incoming spin, etc.
Also, if I serve long, I will have more time to get into the ready position and prepare myself to loop/topspin the ball received from my opponent and I have to take care just on this type of return (which most of the time will be a long ball) instead of preparing myself to handle all those returns with side-spin, backspin, side-backspin, flips short/long, pushes, etc.
Best regards
When you start playing tennis table, everybody will tell you that whatever you do you need to keep the ball low.
Since any ball exchange starts with a serve, it makes sense to serve short because in this way you can protect yourself from being attacked by your opponent from the beginning.
Everything makes sense until you start playing.
Indeed, a short serve cannot be attacked by your opponent, but the problem is that the opponent has a lot of other options against you for this type of serve.
He can flip it, he can drop the ball short over the net, he can push it short or long and even attack it quite strong with a banana flip for example.
By serving short, in a way, means that you want to take some pressure from the first receive (since the opponent cannot attack it theoretically) so you can focus on the 3rd ball.
The problem is that the opponent has a lot of options against you (the ones above and the one for example where you have to deal with your own spin for a pendulum side-backspin for example ) but since you are an amateur you do not have the necessary skills to properly handle those returns; ideally you should attack the 3rd ball but of course you will not be able to attack a lot of these balls so you will be the one who is going to make a weak return that will give the opportunity to your opponent to attack the 4th ball.
Based on the story above, my question is why not serve long and low?
For a long serve, the opponent most of the times is going to loop it (I am not talking about choppers); it will not push it, it will not drop it, it will not angle the racket at a proper angle to "go" with the incoming spin, etc.
Also, if I serve long, I will have more time to get into the ready position and prepare myself to loop/topspin the ball received from my opponent and I have to take care just on this type of return (which most of the time will be a long ball) instead of preparing myself to handle all those returns with side-spin, backspin, side-backspin, flips short/long, pushes, etc.
Best regards