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There are 3 difficulties in receiving serve: 1- reading what ball is coming: spin, length, placement, (height) 2- reacting quickly 3- making the receive itself I think the first thing to practice / check: if the server tells you what serve they are doing, can you receive it properly ??? this is...

Hi Gozo, all i can say is that i've played many such tournaments recently with the same result. I'm rather relatively good at rallying compared to my overall level, but i'm just getting outplayed in serve / receive and can't get often enough to rallies. i'm like losing usually 3-4 something or...

Shanghai looks stronger to me

Point of the year ??

Hirano also just won the latest internal selection tournament (Nojima Cup) for Paris 2024, (she beated Ito in the final, Hayata lost to Ito in SF)

it looks more like a cup than a medal + award to me ok its perhaps not shaped like the Holy Grail but it looks as much as a cup as the FIFA world cup to me

In warming up I need a few minutes for serves receive and third ball openers both sides . Warmup is most of the time very short in Japan. 30 minutes before the tournament but you typically to share a table with 8 people or more…worse if you come alone to a tournament you’re likely to not be...

I dont understand OP insistence on this matter when there is so much evidence. One big thing to understand is that the contact with the ball and the rubber is not at a « point » The rubber is elastic and the ball sinks into the rubber so the contact is on a surface and not a single point and...

For all short receive, be it a short receive, a Long backspin push , or banana flick or whatever, I think the number one thing to pay attention to is to go near the ball as quickly as possible. With the dominant leg forward , the elbow not far the body (ie not reaching ) and your head and eyes...

I'm all against Putin, wars etc... but this is a TT forum, If i want to read about this, i go to other SNS. i'm not here either to see people insulting each other. Fortunately i can press that <IGNORE BUTTON> (again) but i wish the mods were a bit more proactive.

Miwa v Miu HIRANO Miwa v Mima ITO ---- Miwa v Hina HAYATA not quite there yet. HAYATA is still above now but its just a matter of time.

a new era has begun

yeh i can post videos of recent matches. I'm REALLY trying to improve on that, and practice a lot. But i don't have much other advice from the coach than "practice-practice and practice..." Like you say, in critical moments if the receiver can put me out of position on wide or short FH if i do...

actually thats part of the problem. I'm so aware of my recovering being slow / my serve being bad, that i overthink my serve, and get the reverse effect: get too tense, serve is not good, get a more difficult receive, and because im overthinking it, im late to recover. seriously, normally...

i have exactly this problem. Recovery after serve. Any advice on how to improve on that ?

It’s strange regarding Schlagers advice I’ve always been told the contrary. If picking up the ball earlier then close the racket angle even more because there is more spin

Best video of the whole series !

I've had some very good sessions this week. i've focused mostly on one thing: keeping the racket high, and put it quickly back in position after a stroke. i was really quick to react, im hitting earlier and more forward, especially on FH, and strokes are shortened as well. even in multiball...