Drills for spinny, high backspin balls?

[schrodingerskoalabear]

During recent match days, I faced difficulties confidently taking on popped up or high spinny balls at half-long and short lengths. Part of the identified problem is obviously lack of anticipation and adjusting to varied speed on my end.

I wanted to incorporate a drill or two related to this specifically to my upcoming training but am not completely sure. My idea is: multi-ball where my partner just spins up the ball but I am not sure that will give good quality training.

Any recommendations on a drill that you have used for this kind of problem?

 

[pong99]

I was taught this technique by Wei Wang, former US natl champ and olympian.

Open your racker past 90 degrees so when you contact the ball the ball cannot slip downwards.

Swing aggressively as you close the racket through contact.

The other thing to try is to hit on the side of the ball instead of the back. Use your body and fingers to wrap around the ball. There is a Heming Hu video on his channel on how to do this.

 

[blahness]

Learn the chiquita - these balls are super easily killed by someone with modern chiquita technique. With FH it is a lot harder and more technical if you wanna flick kill or loop kill it.