I play both hands, right is dominant by eating, writing, etc.
Learned to play left because of injury. You can learn but takes time. Mostly more difficult, but some things are easier since you seem to focus on learning fundamentals properly.
I'm a native lefthander, but righthandedness was forcefully bestowed onto me in primary school. Lefthandedness was unacceptable back then.
I learned myself to play righthanded shakehand as well, but can more or less get by playing lefthanded. When playing lefthanded, the backhand snaps easier and earlier into place than the forehand; especially forehand topspin is a bit awkward for quite a while.
Not sure how much sense there is to this, but I've met coaches who make players fix basic technique errors by having them learn to hit properly using their irregular hand, and then transferring the changed stroke to the playing hand. Sounds interesting, and I wonder if it really works out that way.
When using the irregular hand, you usually don't start with any different habits or strokes from tennis, racquetball, baseball, etc. so you will do what the coach tells you.
I'm a lefty. I was born that way though, no injury!
I've had to learn a few things "wrong-handed" when there were no left handed options. For example, I played guitar right-handed. It's very tough at first, but if you keep trying, there is almost a point at which your brain "flips", and you begin to make progress more quickly. Because of this need to learn right-handed things as a left-hander, I think we are better at using our wrong hand. Timo Boll and Koki Niwa for example seem to be much more likely to do switch-handed shots in matches.
In another sport, I know Rodney Mullen (the genius skateboarder who innovated most of the modern sport) was forced to skate in a left-handed "switch" stance for a while after an injury. He ended up advocating for a "stanceless" philosophy where any skill could be executed either left or right foot forward. His influence is huge and skating has ended up with "switch" skating considered an important skill, and people even create "mirror" videos showing the same tricks done both left- and right-footed, and the goal is to make them look as similar as possible.
I'm a lefty. I was born that way though, no injury!
I've had to learn a few things "wrong-handed" when there were no left handed options. For example, I played guitar right-handed. It's very tough at first, but if you keep trying, there is almost a point at which your brain "flips", and you begin to make progress more quickly. Because of this need to learn right-handed things as a left-hander, I think we are better at using our wrong hand. Timo Boll and Koki Niwa for example seem to be much more likely to do switch-handed shots in matches.
In another sport, I know Rodney Mullen (the genius skateboarder who innovated most of the modern sport) was forced to skate in a left-handed "switch" stance for a while after an injury. He ended up advocating for a "stanceless" philosophy where any skill could be executed either left or right foot forward. His influence is huge and skating has ended up with "switch" skating considered an important skill, and people even create "mirror" videos showing the same tricks done both left- and right-footed, and the goal is to make them look as similar as possible.