Playing against anti spin rubber

Alois,

I was playing friendly against an opponent with regular smooth rubbers on both side of his paddle. My paddle has LP OX and 0.05 smooth on the other side. First game, my score was 11 to 4. He checked my paddle and changed his paddle to a anti spin one side and the other side is smooth paddle. I lost the next two games 6 to 11 and 8 to 11. My question is to you how do I play him.

Thank you for your response.

Rodrigo

Hi Rodrigo,

To play against anti-spin you need to understand the effect of the rubber.  It is a dead rubber that will reverse the spin on the ball.

A simple tactic is to push the ball to the anti spin and then the ball will come back to you with topspin.  That is the ball you can attack.

The other issue is that he should not change rackets in the middle of a match.  This is not allowed.  You are only allowed to change rackets if you break the first one accidentally.

For our Premium members we have a lesson on Playing Against Antispin in our Match Strategy section.  To join the Premium membership you can go to the My info link at the top right of the website.  Once you are a Premium member you will be able to see that tutorial and all of the Premium content on the site.