Looping floating ball

I played against a good player today. I don't know the ball he returns is underspin or floating ball. I have a good feeling of underspin ball (even with side spin), but the balls I receive from him may not be underspin. I can't loop those balls - can't lift it. These floating balls (I may be wrong) float more in the air rather than falls on the table in a stoop tragectory. The only way I can return these balls is through pushing. Then how long you can push? Any idea how to attack these floating balls? Or are they balls with too much under spin?

well it sounds like this person is a defender that plays heavy backspin, so u have two options: u can either try to loop the ball but the way to loop is not behind the ball but on the side of the ball cuz thats where there is less spin, or u could hit a flat shot which is quite hard if u ask me.

varghesep wrote: I played against a good player today. I don't know the ball he returns is underspin or floating ball. I have a good feeling of underspin ball (even with side spin), but the balls I receive from him may not be underspin. I can't loop those balls - can't lift it. These floating balls (I may be wrong) float more in the air rather than falls on the table in a stoop tragectory. The only way I can return these balls is through pushing. Then how long you can push? Any idea how to attack these floating balls? Or are they balls with too much under spin?

First
lets be clear (for any noobies reading):
A backspin is called chop.
It will go down off attackers bat.
A fake backspin is called float. The stroke looks like heavy chop but only has a little backspin.
If attacker does not read it He will lift off the table.
If he reads it he can do sinking drive (forward loop) or kill.
As I think you are saying say you cant lift it, I think this is high heavy chop, probably to the end of the table. This is a difficult ball and a test of your technique with the lifting drive. You can also instead of doing lifting drive (strong topspin), try high roll (light topspin) with same high arc as loop with slightly open racket. Your opp may try to hit this one so its important that your light topspin is good length (end of table). If he chops it he may have to chop lighter so you may be able to loop normally next ball, then roll again etc.
You have now come across a situation which will become common as you play stronger players. If you cant do lifting Drive (loop) its very useful to do high roll. High roll you must practice until you can do easily withot a mistake. This experience should be useful in future when you are chopping again!

If your vision is good, you can try to look for the logo on the ball. Especially if the ball is floating, you should usually have more time to look for the logo.

if he chopped it with inverted rubber then it's underspin, loop upwards, HARD.

but the technique I used was convert all his underspin to topspin. This helped to reduce the underspin from him a little so that I can loop.

I dont understand, what stroke did you use?