Why don't Pro's just do serve that comes back to their side?

[Tony's Table Tennis]

I just want to clarify if I understand your meaning. You mean Ito would run around the side of the table to hit the ball?

1) that leaves the entire table open
2) the server can serve to her Fh side

you should go watch how world top 10 players train and see how fast they are, and what is a USATT 2800~3000+ rating, versus what you know.

Ito is one of the fastest players at the table of the modern era. AKA moving around very quickly is her game/strategy.

 

[Tyce]

I've been thinking about this, and actually the "best" serve here wouldn't be one that bounces back - but one that jumps right into the net after bouncing on the opponent's side. Preferably on the upward motion so that it never gets high enough to be slapped in any way.

I think I have seen one of those recently but no idea where.

 

[Aizen]

I've been thinking about this, and actually the "best" serve here wouldn't be one that bounces back - but one that jumps right into the net after bouncing on the opponent's side. Preferably on the upward motion so that it never gets high enough to be slapped in any way.

I think I have seen one of those recently but no idea where.

Maybe this one?

Or these, not returning and ends up to the net

 

[Tyce]

Maybe this one?

Or these, not returning and ends up to the net

Nah those two are posted above already iirc. I mean:
Serve, 1 bounce on own half, 1 bounce on opponent half right behind the net, immediate drop into net.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

I've been thinking about this, and actually the "best" serve here wouldn't be one that bounces back - but one that jumps right into the net after bouncing on the opponent's side. Preferably on the upward motion so that it never gets high enough to be slapped in any way.

I think I have seen one of those recently but no idea where.

I think I saw that before
but it is also going to be one in a thousand shots.

these pros, knows every trick in the trade.
and if it is going to work, we would have seen it already.
than wait for some forum strategy experts to make suggestions about it.

I think amateurs focus way too much on serves, and this is one of those - super unreturnable serve strategy.
but in the pro world - they are just SO FAST.

I once fed multiball to a WR top 5 U18 player.
from backhand pivot FH shot, to very short and low FH flick - piece of a cake. I didn't even allow time for him to finish his FH pivot shot, and I'm already dropping the next feed/shot.

that guy move slower than ITO from my experience watching them both train

 

[NetProphet]

I just want to clarify if I understand your meaning. You mean Ito would run around the side of the table to hit the ball?

1) that leaves the entire table open
2) the server can serve to her Fh side

If they smash it as it travelling back over the net then that's that. The picture diagram above shows this.
Your question was why is nobody doing it?
Have you thought about that cos there's a lot of reasons given at this stage 😂

I don't know how much live professional Table Tennis you've seen. I've only been to see them once myself but holy crap, they are ridiculously good!
I went to the ITTF Champions in Frankfurt last yr for quarter and semi finals days and it's difficult to describe just how good they are. When there in person it's hard to believe what you're seeing sometimes.