First Tournament Victory (at seniors). Thanks all

Dear All,

Last week I finally got my first decent tournament victory at senior level. Dan suggested I should share this with you by making this post. I thought about it and yeah it is a great idea. In the links below you can find the video of the last 2 sets (I am the guy in black/gold china national shirt). The match ended up in 3-2 and the first sets are also visible in the other video (after 30minutes). It might not be the best match I played, but well I still won the first price: digital camera of Canon.

Last 2 games
Last game from other angle
After 30 minutes first part of the Match

I think this victory has also a lot to do with all the information I picked up from this forum. Especially the tips from members as Der_Echte, UpSideDownCarl, Dan, PingPongPom, WiWa, and of course everyone else. I am still really slow on my feet, but I winning in the first match of the season gives me confidence I will get more good results this year.

Also the change in equipment will have helped. I will post a review regarding my current set-up later. I am super happy with my bluefire m1 and got really good control with my Barracuda.

I hope everyone keeps up the good work and I am looking forward to my next tournament victory!

Ps. Anyone got tips?

Davott said:

Congratulations!



Further to what Der_Echte has said, almost all of your serves looked illegal. You weren't throwing the ball high enough or even straight. The fast cross-court serve towards the end was definitely not legal, and most strong players/umpires just wouldn't have played it.

Has anyone ever commented on your serves in a match before?

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Firstly thanks for the grats and comments. Actually this is the first time I have comments on my serves. I will change it and trow higher from now on.
I guess nobody commented because I don't play national level table tennis and I show the ball at all time. Even though I might not toss the ball high enough (or straight, few do), the ball is visible at all time. I don't cover the serve and for most serves you should be able to see exactly what type is serve I played. A perfect serve following all rules are not played much at my level. however, my teammate has had several comments regarding the illegality of his serve, and I have not received any comments.

thanks and I will improve on playing even better serves following the rules more
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Thanks all. regarding the toss. With training it does not make a big difference with the short serves when throwing higher. Although it is harder to do the"rocket" serve, I am confided I can do the same quality serve with a little training.

my next tournament is in 2 Weeks, but this is not a high quality tournament and has few players. this tournament is more for warming up for the competition. still I want to win it

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too bad. the small tournament of last week did not end up in a victory. I struggled myself into the finals, but got destroyed by my opponent 11-6 14-12 12-10. I don't think it had to do with a higher service toss. Never really felt like winning the whole day. This week the competition will start and hopefully I just had one bad day and will preform better during the competition. What ever happens I will keep training and following the forum!

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