Pro Player Switches To Anti-Spin | Sabine Winter | TTDCast #25

Welcome to Episode 25 of the TTDCast brought to you from Singapore Smash! 🏓🎙️

Dan and Tom had the pleasure of sitting down with German table tennis star, current world number 57, Sabine Winter!

Sabine has recently made a dramatic change in her playing style, switching to anti-loop rubber—a bold move at the professional level! We dive into why she’s made this change and her thinking behind it. We also discuss her career journey, what it takes to compete at the highest level, and how this change is impacting her game.

We’re sure you’ll love hearing from her just as much as we did out here at Singapore Smash and we’ll have lot’s more podcasts coming soon

Available now on YouTube and Spotify! 🎙️🔥

 

[driversbeat]

Really cool interview, thanks TTD team! Sabine is a really fun person to hear from as well. Not sure if the team managed to get Sabine to share more off camera or if I missed it but did she elaborate on why she eventually chose anti over long pimples?

 

[blahness]

Please ask more about the "UFO" shot! I believe if combination players have access to this shot it would be a real gamechanger since we can now produce all varieties of balls from the BH side, even full on countertopspins.

 

[igorponger]

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The blue gal does look much like a lame horse, sorry. (🐎) Timeset 38:00

 

[blahness]

Not sure why Sabine did so little chopblocks and BH anti play - she was just FH pivoting all the time and getting punished bad due to it. Not too experienced with glanti but is it not possible to do pretty off the bounce powerful topspins off backspin balls with glanti? I found it pretty easy to execute them with Butterfly Super Anti (which I think is a classic anti)

 

[blahness]

Theorycrafting on the BH topspin with the FH inverted side (the "UFO" stroke), i just did some shadow strokes and it seems like it would be amazing for fade topspins since it naturally contacts the right side of the ball as opposed to the conventional BH topspin which is much easier to contact the left side of the ball and not so easy to contact the right side.

 

[d3nium]

I don't think it will work for her, at least at international level. She's spent too long playing inverted.