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IMO, the advice to serve short to an antispin player (or a combination bat player with long/medium/short pips) is somewhat questionable, to put it mildly.
Aside from the fact that the vast majority of beginners do not possess the ability to serve short and low consistently, all this achieves is giving the initiative to the opponent inviting them to do an awkward return at a sharp angle where you least expect it to be.
If this was a reasonable general approach, someone like Greg Letts or Larry Hodges would have mentioned it ages ago.
In my personal experience and many post-match conversations with combination bat players, they seem to vastly prefer short and/or spinny and/or slow serves from their opponents than fast long serves which immediately put them under pressure.
Because long serves will return with spin that makes it difficult for a beginner to play a second shot. With a short serve you avoid that problem of confusion almost entirely.
Serving a short serve is easy for beginners.