serves

When you guys perform your backhand over the table flip vs short pure side-spin serves, do you care or take into account if you are going with or against the grain of the spin? Does it matter to you? Do you care? Do you perform the same stroke regardless? What are your thoughts on this...

Look at those serves...

Hey everyone, Last month TableTennisDaily visited the Swedish Open World Tour to promote the event with STIGA. During the tournament I challenged Par Gerell to see how many serves I could return out of 10 and he accepted! Par Gerell is a fantastic player and a really nice guy. Par is renowned...

Recently I was at a tournament and I lost against an opponent who had good long spinny serves. Many players at my level use these types of serves because their opponents(like me) dont know how to loop them. Any tips?

While people want more and more spin on their serves, the truth is that when you have spin, there are advantages to making the serve have less spin than it does as people mostly want to borrow your spin when the spin is very heavy. Here are some good videos that discuss in some detail what the...

New footage has just come in from the Rio Olympic training hall via Instagram user @pingislandslagen! Par Gerell shows of his serves against China's head coach Liu Guoliang! <blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version="7" style=" background:#FFF; border:0...

Hey Guys, I have virtually little experience with Penhold Style. So, I tried to serve some spin variations building on my experience with shake hand. In the video you could see that I am getting very less contact than usual. Is it because of lack of practice or some inherent difficulties with...

and none of them gets attacked..... :eek:

Der_Echte once said to me, learning the timing and touch and bat angles for a short underspin serve is a must, I have decided to work on it and to perfect it as much as I can (without a proper coach). Below is a video of my practice of the serve on Day 2. I am attempting to practice a bucket...

A new video has surfaced via Jun Mizutani's Twitter Account featuring the world number 6 serving with incredible amounts of backspin! A video similar to Ma Lin's viral video in 2008 demonstrating insane amounts of backspin on the ball which has racked up 2 million views on youtube! Jun...

At the beginning of the month Dimitrij Ovtcharov visited Stockholm to work on his serves. Who did Dima have helping his serves? The master of serving - Jan Ove Waldner! In a status on Facebook Dima posted, "Today I visited Jan Ove Waldner in Stockholm to work on my serves! I could benefit a...

Hi! can anyone tell me how Gavin rumgay executes his kicker service?!

What do you do against long serves, meaning they only bounce once on your side and are mostly fast? I have problems agaisnt those, maybe because my trainings partner almost only serves short or half short. And if i tell him he should serve long they aren't what I have problems with, if that...

hi guys, once again with a new video series. I would like to know what do you think about those serves. If I can help you with something regarding this serve, also share it with me. As always. thnks for watching :)

I have noticed that recently ZJK changed his serves. If you look carefully at his match with ovtcharov it is quite obvious that his serves are illegal. First of all his throw is too low and secondly he is hiding the ball with his head. It is good to check first two sets. I am wondering why...

Can anyone help me on how to know where your opponent is going to serve - before he serves? This will help alot in my games Discuss below!

hi guys! So my topic today is all about !sevice! we all know the sevice specialists on the planet like Ma Long, Zhang Jike and and even legends like Waldner. So my question is, what is the best service you have ever witnessed? and if you have it on a youtube vid so everyone can see it? also on...

Hi guys, I have a basic understanding on receiving serves, like watching the point of contact on the basic more obvious serves. However, there is this particular player (shakehand) at our club that is very skilled in producing deceptive serves. It is giving me a lot of problems, because he...

Here are a few examples. Which one do you do ...sometimes:-)

Hi everybody, The rubbers i currently use are Xiom Vega Europe. Everytime i serve, i toss the ball high and use my wrist fully to try to create as much spin as possible. However, when serving, my opponents seem to have no trouble at all and are able to hit the ball flat. For example...