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Well I see this guy performing a flat shot that is producing a dead-ball. That's expected. Like a chop block or a dead-serve, the awkwardness of the ball is a direct result of the player's technique.He flat hits the ball and sometimes chops down on it(especially on backhand, sometimes on forehand), but the pace mostly and the consistency are hard to differentiate from topspin (his motions deliberately do not produce topspin) so many players just dump the ball in the net because they are looking for topspin that isn't there or pop the ball up to control his pace. It's like playing against short/medium pips but the opponent is using inverted to produce the shots. A lot of his wins come from the difficulty of staying consistent against him in a rally because you haven't practiced against what he is doing. He isn't invincible, but extremely awkward to play against and a reminder that awkward styles are awkward, no matter what material is used to produce them. I mean, he has beaten a high level player in an unrated matches before (Damien Provost comes to mind) and has quite a few matches on YouTube with the old ball, though his win was at SPIN club and I am not sure if that is still on YouTube.
Here is a very recent video on YouTube.
What I have advocated in my first post is that LP allows a player to produce topspin from a under-cutting push stroke and that is fundamentally unnatural and unfair. And LP allows a player to produce heavy underspin from a regular topspin stroke hitting over the ball. None of this is due to the technique of the player, but purely enabled by the equipment that doesn't follow the same natural rules as 97% of the other equipment.