Long pimple wheelchairer

D K Asked 9 years ago

Hello Alois and Jeff.

I am going to encounter a wheelchair player who uses OX long pimples on his backhand with great efficiency.

On his forehand, he uses extremely slow and extremely spinny inverted rubber, thus, although he cannot generate too much power off a high ball, he can do a great tomahawk serve. He uses it exclusively for blocking short if someone targets his wide forehand. Otherwise, he is able to cover at least 80% of the width of the table with his longpips backhand without any bigger difference in terms of power or variation. Also,he seems not only to ignore what spin is on the ball, but he seems to completely ignore IF there is any spin.
No spin,topspin,backspin...he seemingly can play off everything with the same stroke.

Can you please give me some advice how to play him?

Thanks

Alois Rosario Answered 9 years ago

Hi DK,

The difficult position for a wheelchair player is in the crossover point. This is a little wider on the forehand side than with standing players.

This is the area that most wheelchair players will target when playing against each other.

It sounds like they are able to control the ball really well with the pimples which is a trait of a lot of wheelchair players with pips.

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D K Posted 9 years ago

I already played him,seemingly you had a lot of questions when there was so unusually big delay.

Yes,it is like it sounds,his control is abnormal.
I lost to him tightly 2:3,but I was mostly using a float return to his forehand,as he kept placing the ball so badly that I was forced to aim for corners.
And he did 4 net-balls in ONE RALLY :((
The matchball rally