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The simplest way to return that serve (even if a little passive) is with a backhand push as the backhand naturally touches the left side of the ball. Otherwise, you need to push with your forehand contacting the left side of the ball. If you learn to create angles that stop the spin in general...

Do you play the TTEdge app? That and practicing some serve return strokes should help.

I am being facetious, but it really pisses me off when I am playing a point and suddenly, I get a grunt during a power shot from my opponent and lose my timing and ability to track the ball off auditory cues.

Practice makes perfect.

To hide the sound of their contact and throw off the opponent. Grunting should be banned, IMO.

Travelling so I won't be playing TT till Wednesday or Thursday evening. Did some coaching and practicing today. Here is an interesting point from yesterday. The old man is fast: https://youtu.be/NRH4oloV7jQ?t=492

We were not matched up - we were going to play league matches in about 25 minutes (the league was delayed 15 mins so we hit longer than we expected to). He needed someone to hit with and I needed to get into match ready shape. So we spent time making sure that we had broken a sweat before we...

Got coaching and then played league yesterday night - went 4-1. Lost to a medium pips guy that I am on a losing cycle with. Will fix it eventually but it is annoying. Here is my hit session with a lower rated player. Hopefully, Luis will see my alternative stroke and get an idea of how I...

Feeding multiball improves stroke technique and this is not that different. The most important thing is to work on elements of your form and to record yourself. IF you know what you are trying to achieve, the exercise helps. Ball timing can be fully learned in other contexts. Does getting...

As an EJ, here are some of my thoughts: Tenergy 05 is not as fast a rubber as some people think. IF you want to use an all wood blade slower than OFF-, I suspect that most 1600+ people will prefer to use T80 or T64 on such blades. That said, I think that what usually first causes the issue...

Just about any wood blade beats any composite blade, though the slower the wood blade in the beginning the better. One problem is that the faster wood blades are thicker, so compromises have to be found between comfort and speed. That said, the lack of speed is not bad as it is part of the...

Yes, yes, yes! When someone has speed addiction, the SPW is usually my compromise blade. On the other hand, it is head heavy and has a big handle (I sanded the top area of mine a little even though I have huge hands) so I have to find something for people who don't like that. One of my pet...

Here is a link to my club. https://video.nest.com/embedded/live/0PC1sy?autoplay=1%22 I won't be there today, but for anyone who has no life, it is a good link. I coach a couple of ladies on Sunday mornings and sometimes, good players do show up.

Persson. I would rotate and take the ball more to the side of me.

Finally, one more reference point - if I had better knees, I would loop more like this: https://youtu.be/C_85n5Kar6c?t=63

Oh, I have shoulder pain just because I have rheumatoid arthritis. I know it is not my really swing because my left shoulder has the same issues, as do my elbows and my wrists. I have accepted it as a fact of life. I could of course swing slower and and rally more and sometimes I do. But I...

This is my power stroke for a weaker ball. It will always look like the arms are doing most of the work on this stroke and it will look even worse since I can't bend my knees and rotate my core easily - you will notice that I do rotate it a little but not enough. I find it easier to rotate my...

SPW is fast so you will still need to focus on getting spin. But it is better than a composite for learning to hit the ball properly.

Here you go... no editing, sorry. Still working on my loop. A couple of matches on my channel as well.

They are not offensive blades. What he needs is a Clipper Wood with WRB or an Emerald VPS.