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Kenta has hit another level. Seems he took missing the Olympics personally and got some extra training in.

Why are you asking?

It's the best one that I have ever seen for sure. Must be amazing to see it live.

One shot can change everything in a match. That behind the back just shook Karlsson completely. Match has changed since.

The only one I picked on sentiment was Ouiache. The rest I am picking the player that I think is better, and I think Groth had hit a wall, but that behind the back was ridiculous.

Dima Karlsson Ouiache Freitas

IMO, this is a great post, probably because the same thing has been on my mind. I find it very hard to believe that the benefit of the shakehand's racket and grip is anything more than that it is what the experts know how to use and teach. There should be grips and designs that take advantage...

His point is a good one - probably just not stated in a tone that fit the mode of the discussion.

28 shot rally - amazing.

Try it in front of a mirror. Many people start out with their angle tilted, then they change it as they approach the ball and even with a mirror, you often do the same thing because you are so focused on hitting the ball you don't see what you do in the mirror. It's the same as my struggle...

Your racket is probably not travelling fast enough which is why they are flying so high. You are also possibly hitting into the ball too hard. Serving low heavy backspin is like making a rock skim across a pond. You want the ball to travel fast and low trajectory enough to go in a straight...

Not just the bottom, the bottom FRONT. Almost tilt your paddle angle so that it faces the back wall slightly and not the front wall. Serve with that and see how much backspin you get without seriously trying. Then try to find the right balance with racket head speed and height. One of the...

Yes, try to get used to serving through up to the bottom front. The follow through is not bad for a table serve, but it is not good for a practice floor serve when you are really trying to practice loading the ball up. When you can do the bottom front naturally, all the other contact points...

Archo, Ah, videotape. Good for you. I have no clue why the angle opens up with the racket perpendicular to the floor at the follow through. This likely means that you are not brushing through the bottom front of the ball and are not getting really heavy backspin. But I can't see the quality...

What am I going to tell you that is better than what Brett put in his video on the backspin serve for TTEdge on his youtube channel? Brett also has a video on backspin vs no spin out there on his youtube channel - what am I going to tell you that he doesn't say there? All people can give is...

The best I can tell you, Archo, is that practicing and looking at the ball and trying to reproduce what gave the best results will get you as far as you can go over time. There is no magic formula to improving the quality of your serves. The most important thing is regular practice and...

You seriously want us to respond to this without video? “Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.” - George Santayana

England seems to be getting TT Rich!

So true and underestimated by some that it is not even funny. When people push my serve into the net, the first reaction from lower level players is to say that they made a mistake. They often don't realize that if they let that ball go off the table (if it made it that far), it would come...

There are a lot of interesting issues here - may come back later to contribute when I have time to discuss deeper. I think izra's point is important that negative thinking is not necessarily negative - there is a book on it call "the power of negative thinking". I just think that everyone has...