Short pimple serve
Receiving
kirtan agrawal Asked 12 years ago
How to return a short pimple serve?
Alois Rosario Answered 12 years ago
Hi Kirtan,
It is difficult to generate any spin with the short pimples. If they serve with the short pimples, treat it as a no spin serve even if they have a complicate action and a fancy contact.
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Julio Torres Posted 12 years ago
Look to the He Zhi wen Serve.... Great example-....
Ji-Soo Woo Posted 12 years ago
Definitely! Amazing how much spin he gets with a SP. Not only that, but I read somewhere he uses a very cheap racquet unlike other professional players. Just goes to show, as Pingskills teaches, the tone is in your fingers!
kirtan agrawal Posted 12 years ago
Thnx for the answer