Left-handers

Table Tennis Match Strategy

Last updated 7 years ago

jean raveneau

jean raveneau Asked 7 years ago

I'm left-handed. Are there any special strategies or tricks I can use either to make up for my weeknesses against right-handed players, or to surprise and destabilize them?

Thanks!

jp


Alois Rosario

Alois Rosario Answered 7 years ago

Hi Jean,

The best thing is that other players don;t get to play against us left handers as often so we have the natural advantage anyway.

Try different types of serves and see if they can adapt to the spin of the left hander.


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Johan B

Johan B Posted 7 years ago

Serve deep fast heavy pendulum serves into their wide forehand and smash their topspin down the line : -)


Alois Rosario

Alois Rosario from PingSkills Posted 7 years ago

Don't be so mean to us poor left handers????


Johan B

Johan B Posted 7 years ago

Lol

 

I played against a left handeld penholder last week.. Several levels above me..Exposing his backhand like that was pretty much the only way I could score


Tushar Verma

Tushar Verma Posted 7 years ago

Did left handed player have a advantage in double game as they just have to do a counter serve but right hander have to adjust to do a forehand serve?


Alois Rosario

Alois Rosario from PingSkills Posted 7 years ago

The definitely do have an advantage.  Also with the return of serve they can get right around the corner of the table.  A left hand right hand combination doesn't need to move anywhere near as much as two right handers.


D K

D K Posted 7 years ago

I like playing lefthanders :DD
Especially those who have great imbalance between forehand and backhand.


Tushar Verma

Tushar Verma Posted 7 years ago

Here is the other advatage of left handers.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=239JKqz4YfY

Observe clearly guys more than half of the player are left handers and it is no surprise.

 


D K

D K Posted 7 years ago

-_- so you say that a righthander cannot switch hands?

 

 


Tushar Verma

Tushar Verma Posted 7 years ago

No, I am not saying this, I can also do a hand switch shot of a topspin.

But the fact I am going to tell you maybe you can understand or may be not but does't matter.

According to a survey by google about 90% of the world population is right handed and only 10% of the population is left handed. That means 90% of people use right hand for their primary activities such and writing and doing other work (Table Tennis is considered as secondary activity) and 10% of people use left hand for their primary activities.

Now according to this fact "my opinion" says

For Right hander-Most player play table tennis with right hand and since most of the people use right hand for their primary activities the find bit hard to play hand change shot tricky as they did not use their left hand much for primary activities. In my case I am bi-dexterous, I use right and left both hands for writing as well as for playing table tennis so my hand coordination is good so I am good and hand change shots (And in case of Alois also I guess).

For Left hander-Very few player are left handed player so it is 95% chance that they use their right hand for primary activities and left hand for playing so left hander can do the shot hand change shot without facing much difficulties as their hand are already in a good coordination.

But for the players who use left hand for playing as well as for primary activities it is as difficult as the right handed player to execute a hand change shot.

I know what I have written is bit tricky but maybe you will get my point.

What your take Alois?  


Tushar Verma

Tushar Verma Posted 7 years ago

and sorry for so may mistakes I guess I need to improve my typingtongue-out


D K

D K Posted 7 years ago

I understand what you are saying.

 

I am complete righthander.
I even have to switch hand when I need to use fork :D


András Nagy

András Nagy Posted 7 years ago

I am a left-hander too and I have already realised lot of right-hander can't read my spins and serves . And trainers told me that a good lefthander-player has 3 or 4 points advantage per set against right-hander. In addition trainers educate for right-handers how to play against left-hander.


Manfred

Manfred Posted 7 years ago

So it would be nice to read about a strategie against left-handed players. 



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