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I'm not sayin' it's easy to flip this. But then how come you hardly see this being done on ProTour or WTTC? I guess there must be a reason, or do you think this dude is the first and only one who came up with this serve? ;-)
By the way...
Do you actually know the armlength of vladimir samsonov? ;-)
And there is quite a few tall and long-armed players in the top 200. ;-)
Again: it is a good serve to have as a variation, but i wouldn't want my game depending on this serve.
I and my friend tried to play the return with this serve before. In the conclusion, we would say that if as long as the opponent know you are going to serve it, it is very easy for them to FH flip it (no need BH). Just step from side of table and flip.
It only good for occasionally during amateur match, to surprise them. It is not really good in pro match because the motion to serve it is too obvious.