Tactics for Lefties

iTT · Apr 15, 2011

Are there any tactics to consider when playing left handed players (assuming we're right handed of course)?

Or are there any tactics to use for left handed players (playing against righted handed player)?

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poltery · Apr 16, 2011

wow! this will help me . Usually when i play against a left hander i get messed up with ther fh and bh but receiving is easy though u just reverse the way u receive a normal sidespin ang a reverse pendulum or a corkscrew service

azlan · Apr 16, 2011

Usually, lefties have better footwork. They're able to take their BH shots as FH. A strategy that always work for me is I played a wide attacking shots to their FH and lay it off wide to their BH on the next shots. More often than not, you'll get a weaker reply for you to attack more aggressively and put them on the back foot.

Matt Hetherington · Apr 16, 2011

I'm left handed and I enjoy using the advantage of being able to break the table with wide angles which right handers hate. A tactic I use in tight situations is a long sidespin fast serve which breaks the table, a right hander follows it out to attack on their forehand but very seldom attack down the line so they will generally loop back to my backhand corner, I pivot and loop early in the bounce down the line to the huge gap in the table!

YosuaYosan · Apr 16, 2011

PingPongPom said:
I'm left handed and I enjoy using the advantage of being able to break the table with wide angles which right handers hate. A tactic I use in tight situations is a long sidespin fast serve which breaks the table, a right hander follows it out to attack on their forehand but very seldom attack down the line so they will generally loop back to my backhand corner, I pivot and loop early in the bounce down the line to the huge gap in the table!

LOOL !
You could break the table with a long sidespin fast serve !
Nice term anyway

markog99 · Apr 16, 2011

PingPongPom said:
I'm left handed and I enjoy using the advantage of being able to break the table with wide angles which right handers hate. A tactic I use in tight situations is a long sidespin fast serve which breaks the table, a right hander follows it out to attack on their forehand but very seldom attack down the line so they will generally loop back to my backhand corner, I pivot and loop early in the bounce down the line to the huge gap in the table!

i know what you mean.i am an leftie too and i use that too

markog99 · Apr 16, 2011

azlan said:
Usually, lefties have better footwork. They're able to take their BH shots as FH. A strategy that always work for me is I played a wide attacking shots to their FH and lay it off wide to their BH on the next shots. More often than not, you'll get a weaker reply for you to attack more aggressively and put them on the back foot.

lefthanded players have better footwork?that doesnt matter at all!!!its all in practice.which player has the greatest footwork?Ma Lin,a righthander.

kaikaz · Apr 16, 2011

markog99 said:
lefthanded players have better footwork?that doesnt matter at all!!!its all in practice.which player has the greatest footwork?Ma Lin,a righthander.

xu xin

a lefthander

azlan · Apr 17, 2011

With lefties, more often then not, their opponents tend to be right handed players. That allows them to get accustomed to swerving shots coming in wide to their BH, which in time they develop their footwork to take these shots as FH. In other words, lefties get more practice and experience playing against right handed players, compared to right handed players like me playing against lefties. I play tennis often, and receiving a slider serve from a lefty wide to my BH is always difficult, even for a season pros.
As Mark said, practice will improve your footwork against lefties.

Matt Hetherington · Apr 17, 2011

YosuaYosan said:
LOOL !
You could break the table with a long sidespin fast serve !
Nice term anyway

hah didn't think of it that way

Nuigit · Apr 17, 2011

Left handed players will almost always possess some sort of an advantage over anyone due to the lower numbers of them resulting in inexperience when anyone plays them

Completely agree with markog though, the hand preference of a player doesn't affect the ability of their footwork

Charlie · Apr 18, 2011

lefties can aim at the crossover point easier than righties if their opponents right handed that is so take that in mind

YosuaYosan · Apr 20, 2011

Charlie said:
lefties can aim at the crossover point easier than righties if their opponents right handed that is so take that in mind

How is that so ?
Isn't it supposed that the right handed player could also aim easier to the lefty player's crossover point ?
Correct me if I'm wrong.

markog99 · Apr 20, 2011

kaikaz said:
xu xin a lefthander

yeah he is.but he is discribet as lazy in china`s national team and as slow.he gets to the ball cause he is big.so they say but i dont agree,xu is fast

Bollforte94 · Apr 20, 2011

markog99 said:
yeah he is.but he is discribet as lazy in china`s national team and as slow.he gets to the ball cause he is big.so they say but i dont agree,xu is fast

You are not up to date

they said this as he was promoted to the A team. But they that he develop the fastest

Nowadays they would not say that he is slow

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scylla24 · Apr 20, 2011

The only good tactic I can think of, is just a really good powerful spinny forehand that goes is aimed at the spot where its right between the place where they can't decide to use a forehand or a backhand. That really forces them to just block it back in which case they usually try to block it back to my backhand, since they don't want me to continue using my forehand. Because its generally just a block, I find that its really effective to then just do a backhand that goes really far to their forehand. That's like really the only tactic in my game that I can think of that specifically works well for me when I play against lefties.

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