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No, because serve/receive is very technically difficult. You have to work for it, unlike someone who just uses some anti or LP, which is just lazy and ugly....

Hahahaha im so tempted to switch to anti on some days too...

Yeah most players are resorting to illegal serves these days. In amateur circuits, it is even way worse with the serve cheats who use hiding and no toss techniques to hide their inability to master the true art of serving like a magician.

Multiball with a ball picker is the way to go. I improved heaps after incorporating it. You dont even need to feed it. Just practice whatever you want starting from a realistic serve. You can work on your weaknesses for one round of multiball, and your friend on the next round to allow you to...

:( i am really only sort of good at serve and receive and getting the 1st loop in. Once it gets to the rally I am a lot weaker because I just dont train enough on the table and didnt start young enough to have good muscle memory. Blame having too many things in life, i am only playing maybe once...

Well i cant get 80% win rates against better players obviously, but I do get a lot of free points even against ex semipros. The thing is that I worked very hard on perfecting those serves like how a magician works hard to create an illusion. It is an artform in itself which I can really...

Figured out to get really super heavy sidetopspin on my hook serve. Previously i only got very heavy sideunder and moderate sidetopspin. Encountered a strange player who chops with incredible spin variation and lost 3 very closely contested games which all went to deuce. He was also using no...

FH fade loop is extremely hard unless your pivot footwork is super good and the freaking arena has enough space for pivoting (a lot dont!). Imo BH loop is the easiest way to counter this.

Pretty funny - i went today at the club to train serve and serve receive. I was serving my usual hook, pendulum, tomahawk, heavy under/nospin serves to a few players (albeit a bit lower level than me) and my serve win rate is like freaking 80-90% with so many outright direct points. There is no...

This is generally correct. If you see arm backswing, they're 95% not gonna be able to keep it short lol. Especially if they are using fast rubbers and not Hurricane. If they use fast setups, they actually have to move their bat backwards to keep it short.

This shot is quite disgusting as a serve receive of reverse pendulum. I do it all the time and abuse it quite hard. Think about the spin a bit - if it is righty to righty matchup, the spin is equivalent to receiving a FH pendulum sidespin. If you know how to BH loop against incoming FH...

It is only weak because ML and FZD are absent - the 2 strongest players currently. ZJK, Ma Lin, WLQ lost plenty of matches especially in the small stage.

it's probably a lack of practice. Just flat hit counter for an entire session and you'll get it. Then switch it up to spin based counter, and then challenge yourself to do 1 flathit counter, 1 spin counter, 1 flathit, etc... Warn your training partner beforehand that you're gonna do this so...

yep, i do the same thing as well and am happy to see some pros actually adopting it (all pros currently have significantly different preparation movements between hook and pendulum serve). I pretty much show the hook serve preparation stance at the start, but after my bat is hidden behind my...

The potential weakness of that hook serve is that it often drifts long (the high toss hook serve). He needs to tighten it a lot more if he wants additional success beyond this tournament. Against someone who is reading the spin accurately and pivoting to use FH to loop those serves with high...

Wildest ATTC ever!

The real killer is his hook serve. It is a high toss hook serve which is one of the deadliest serves if one can master it, a bit like Par Gerell's. He is also able to switch at the last minute to a standard pendulum serve with the hook serve preparation movement. And if you dont control his...

If serve receive is too hard, i recommend just switching to anti/LP. It is the shortcut :)

Watch this: From the front it looks almost exactly the same between sidetop and sideunder! Blade angle is the same, trajectory and speed are almost the same. But you can see he contacts the sideunderspin serve slightly higher than the sidetopspin serve, and this is imo an important point to...

Tbh these serves arent that hard to read because he isnt making increased efforts to disguise the followthrough which gives a lot of information to his opponent. If he relies on changing the racket angle, this is usually the easiest to see - just focus hard on the contact point - open angle =...