Penhold Backspin Serve
Serving
Heang Quach Asked 13 years ago
Hi coach! I am a penholder and I have found it hard to make a short & heavy backspin serve, instead my serve always carries more or less sidespin, and it's always a long one. please tell me what I have been doing wrong, I am very eager to master a short & heavy backspin serve with my penhold grip, thanks.
Alois Rosario Answered 13 years ago
Hi Heang,
The key is getting the bat angle right. Focus on getting the bat flat, parallel to the ground to get pure backspin. See if you can get someone to watch you and see if your bat if flat on contact. If not get a video and then watch it for yourself. Work on getting the tip of your bat higher.
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Heang Quach Posted 13 years ago
thanks coach, and one more thing is that should I serve it vertically like Wang Hao does or should I serve it horizontally like Ma Lin? because the latter has more possibility to give my serve more sidespin, I think I should focus on serving vertically, what do you think?