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Wang hao would often serve from the centre, using his hook serve. The hook serve is essentially a less spinny reverse pendulum backspin serve with very ambiguous spin as there is no wrist movement, the spin coming from rotation of the body. Because it's short they will likely push and because of the sidespin will likely go either to the middle or fh side. Therefore he is perfectly in position without having to move after the serve. I suppose this is the same as serving backhand for shake handers, although hiding the spin is slightly more difficult. In general though, mixing up where you serve from is pretty effective, as it adds diversity to your serving arsenal. This is how I understand it anyway.