Tomahawk Serve
Serving
Steve Keyes Asked 14 years ago
Hi Guys
Watching your Match Commentaries, I did not see the tomahawk serve used. Is this unusual? How many top players use it?
Regards
Steve
Alois Rosario Answered 14 years ago
Hi Steve,
The Tomahawk serve is not used very much at all at the top level. It is used by some of the Japanese players especially and by Henzell from Australia.
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Julio Torres Posted 14 years ago
I see that matsudaira uses it
Ji-Soo Woo Posted 14 years ago
Ovtcharov as well. In fact William got the inspiration to adopt tomahawk from him.