ARE YOUR TABLE TENNIS SERVES GOING TOO SHORT
Are your table tennis serves being too short? too short you can say, but how can a serve be too short? Isn’t it the shorter the better?This is the perfect time and you can say point to improve your short serves in table tennis.
THE 3 POSSIBLE RETURNS TO A SHORT SERVES
When you serve short you give your opponent three options for returning your serves.
- Short push
- Long push
- Flick/flip
An experienced player will be able to successfully execute all three returns to any short serves you give them. A less experienced player…. not so much.If anyone has a pretty good short backspin serve. It’s low and has plenty of backspin. That means most of the intermediate -level players he can come up against won’t be able to attack it with a flip/flick. They need to push it. But they are still having the choice to push long or push short.If anyone wants them to push long. But after observing his forehand loop-kill a couple of third-balls past them, all the opponent will probably decide that pushing short is a better option.Now he is stuck having to deal with many loads of touching and short games on every point he serves. Not ideal
ANALYSING SHORT SERVES
If anyone has backspin serves, they are super shorts.If your short serves are bouncing three times or more than that on your opponent’s side of the table, it would be labelled as a super short serve.If shorts are really short it would seem pretty pleased with players. And if any service had to bounce twice on his opponent’s side it is now classified as shorts.
SUPER SHORT SERVES ARE EASY TO TOUCH SHORT
Usually a service that is going to bounce three or four times on your opponent’s side of the table would be much easier for them to return. And that’s why
- While receiving a super short service, you can see earlier that it is going to go short and will be therefore you can also step in earlier and can get yourself in your position.
- While receiving a super short service the ball will be closer to the net which will make it easy to touch back short over the net.
