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AlexZ
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Hi All: I need a little help on returning short side spin. I am a right-handed shakehander, USATT rating about 1700. Against higher rated players, they would serve short side spin (pendulum serve) -- which lands near the center line on my side of the table, but jumps to my backhand sideline.
I can't handle this type of serve will, since I can't loop it (backhand loop or forehand loop). When I push it, it typically ends up high and long, and the other guy is just waiting there to loop kill it.
How do you guys handle this? Any tips would be appreciated.
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is this pure sidespin or a combination of side and top/underspin?.
either way, you have 2 options: push or flip. the push is an angled push similar to that against topspin. while the flip is going to be tougher for you since it seems that you haven't tried it yet. for me, the flips are easier because it's basically a shortened loop (fh or bh).
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The suggestion that I should try backhand flip is a valuable one to me: This will point out what next skill I should learn to acquire. Thanks!
Also, when you say "angled push", you mean to keep the paddle face quite vertical, but "pushing" downwards (toward the table), am I right?
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I figured it had to be side-top based since you said it was popping up long. I'm guessing you have similar trouble against short top as well.
tpgh2k touched on 2 of the potential solutions - both of which would work. If the ball isn't really low, there is another solution though it's hard to explain in words without confusing it with other shots. I want to say shove, but I don't want to confuse it with something else. You kind of just softly guide the ball. Instead of adding spin one way or the other, you're just letting their spin do the work and placing it. Unless your opponent has backed off the table, I would suggest placing it as deep as you can and toward their middle to make it harder for them to attack. The shot doesn't have to be very fast, the goal is really just to prevent a strong opening.
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The angle should depend on the amount of spin, but for side top, your paddle needs to be closed. The problem is that for most people, it is counter intuitive that they don't need to lift a ball that is close to the net over the net, but practice with someone who can serve topspin short and push with a slightly closed racket face and voila, the ball goes over. |
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You can execute a simple sideways stroke of your own, to control the spin better. If he's right handed and serves pendulum, then you receive with your forehand, moving it from right to left, to play with the spin on the ball. Depending on your stroke speed you can either add or subtract spin, but what will be most noticeable is the fact that the ball will not grip that hard on your rubbers and will be easier to control placement.
For some reason many amateur players are not able to serve under spin pendulum so, mostly you can count on top side spin or pure side spin. That should be easy to flick if you hit close to the highest point while the ball is still on the rise. |
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Sounds to me that the OP's ready stance is too close to the table. Or too square on forcing him into awkward BH returns.
I know that we always say this, but a picture paints a thousand words. Try and video one of your matches so that all can better analyse what is happening.
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OK ... you suggest using my forehand, and swipe the incoming ball from my right to my left (so that the returned ball lands on my opponent's forehand side). I will try this with someone.
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It's really a shove or flick, but the point is that if you read the spin correctly, you can make contact with the ball closed. Of course, it is usually safer to add some of your topspin too in case you misread the spin, but the point is that the ball will not just go into the net with a closed angle. It's just hard to trust the physics when you are not used to serving topspin short. In fact, one way of solving your problem is to develop a short topspin serve. When you see what it does to people who push it with a very open racket, you'll believe in the solution.
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If it is side spin going to backhand, just angle the paddle \ and open if there is underspin and close if topspin.
If you can't attack it with a flip, then go for a dink with very little pace or spin, either short or half long to his weaker side. It should force them to give you a weaker return that goes long, if they are not ready for it, which should be an easy kill. |
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this serve is indeed very hard to push correctly using BH (even if you tilt your paddle to the left), unless you have really good push feeling and control (might be something you want to work on). I have encountered players who can BH push absolutely everything, low, deep and extremely spinny... I also like to use this serve and it gets me many points usually since the heavy sidespin is not that easily countered, and if you don't read the topspin/underspin component it makes your problem worse. Usually I have two methods of receiving this type of serve. 1) Step around to receive the serve with FH. (sounds hard but it's not that hard in reality). It's much easier to angle your paddle that way with your FH. However, you need to make a high quality return, otherwise it somehow opens up your deep FH. 2) BH over-the-table loop. It's not that hard actually, just cock your wrist inwards and make your bat travel anticlockwise around the ball's side. It can pretty much handle any sort of spin, it's quite a safe return since you're actively producing spin, and also it's pretty hard for the other person to handle due to the sidespin. This is my return of choice at the moment, because it makes it a topspin rally which I like, and against lesser opponents they just miss the ball completely...
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Yes, I think I will invest some time learning to do the backhand flip.
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Backhand and forehand flips can be an invaluable weapon when doing service returns, especially if you have good ball placement. In your case, if it is pure side spin which goes short, I would suggest that you you play with the spin and execute a sideways motion on the ball so that the ball goes back to your opponent with the ball spinning the same way that it came to you- effectively adding more spin to it. (I think a couple of people already mentioned this).
If its topspin-side spin and goes short, I would do a backspin push with a slightly closed racket angle so that the topspin doesn't force the ball to go long- maybe keep the blade angle around 50 degrees give or take depending on the amount of topspin. |
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if it have sidespin or topspin i will flick it , if it have backspin i will push it short into forehand or fast into backhand .
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I wonder whether receiving short sidespin is not an issue or easier to traditional penholders. On Sunday I played a player who served sidespin serves more or less in the middle. Initially I was trying to decide whether to receive from backhand or forehand and I didn’t do very well. Most of the serves were fast side topspin and very spinny. I am a penholder with RPB and I don’t use traditional penhold backhand blocks. I figured most of his sidespin serves were near the middle. I decided to prepare the RPB with paddle in horizontal mode if the serve was sidespin. (There was no backhand loop motion.) I wanted to keep the stroke small to reduce the time to react to the curve of the ball. If the serve was topspin, I would block back. If the sidespin serve had underspin, I would add some topspin. It worked. I also kept my stance low so I could see better how the ball was curving while I blocked. |
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You are not the only one having this trouble.
Watch the bronze match between Otcharov and Chuan Chi Yuan of the London 2012 Olympics. You will see how much trouble Chuan had with Otcharov's serves. |
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Many of the replies on this thread are very bad quality. You need to look at the spinning axis of the ball. The ball turns the fastest on the most far away point perpendicular to the spinning axis. If you touch the ball here the spin will have most effect on your rubber. Instead you better touch the ball more on the side of the spinning axis where the ball turns much less -> easier ball control. Now, when the ball jumps to the side after it bounces on the table as in you question, the ball does *NOT* have side spin (with real side spin the spin axis is where your racket normally would touch the ball, not where the ball touches the table -> no side jumping of the ball). In your case the spin axis of ball is where it touches the table and because of the spin jumps to the side. Now when you touch the ball with your racket you touch the ball on the side of the spinning axis and thus basically deal with a ball that turns very little at the point where you touch it with your racket. Proper answer: Don't touch this ball on the sides, top or bottom as this is where it spins the most, but touch it straight on and handle it as a no spin ball. If the ball does not jump to the side on table when it touches the table, you deal with real side spin which means that you need to touch it either below or on top to get the least spin effect. If it's short, a simple push where you make sure to contact the ball at the bottom or when it's long enough, loop it and make sure th contact it on top of the ball to get as little negative spin effect on your racket as possible. Edited by purple - 10/11/2012 at 9:34am |
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Purple, Got a few questions because I have been trying to work out what you have written on my own and have fallen short.
So you are saying that
1) pure side spin has no top/under/corkscrew spin and does not dance around and that when the ball dances it is because of rotation in the axis where the ball is moving and 2) it is easiest to return the ball by avoiding the axis inwhich rotation is occurring thereby avoiding the heavy spiun entirely. Am I reading you correctly? |
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My English isn't very good, I'm sorry.
1. a) The ball is a 3D object that can only have a single spinning axis i. e. strictly speaking all talk about the side-topspin and side-backspin really just tries to approximate the effects of an oblique spin axis. b) "Dancing" effects need to be distinguised between direction changes mid air (=huge amount of spin on the ball that leads to a curved flight path) and direction changes on impact on the table surface (=the spinning ball grips on the table and changes direction according to how it's spinning). It's difficult for me to describe in English, but it's very easily understood if you try such side-kick-serves yourself which isn't hard to do (strike ball from right to left from *underneath* when serving. The ball will fly straight ahead and then kick sharply to the left abruptly when it touches on the other side of the table. This is a "classic" serve where people often miss the ball completely if they haven't paid attention to the serve. 2. No, it's the easiest if you touch the ball where it spins the *slowest* i. e. as closely to the spinning axis as possible. Avoid the fastest spinning points on the ball if this is possible to make control easier. Edited by purple - 10/11/2012 at 9:39am |
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need SP on your BH to just push it.
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Your English is quite good. You're probably a genius in your own language.
Yes, similar to vector analysis. But I am beginning to appreciate your point more because sometimes, when I go against a spin, what I expect to be sidespin acts like underspin on racket contact.
Thanks for this - I think this is the logical insight that I may have been missing.
I use this serve from left to right on the backhand.
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wow can you really receive a pure sidespin serve by brushing only the top of the ball to avoid the spin-axis? I never thought of that before, i've always thought sidespin can only be countered by using the angle of your bat to counteract the tendency of the ball to shoot sideways (i.e. if the ball tends to go to the right then you angle your bat towards the left a bit more)
Actually, thinking about it, is there actually 2 types of sidespin?!!! one where the spinning axis touches the table and one where the spinning axis does not touch the table and runs through the "equator" of the ball. then there will be two different ways of dealing with it...
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It's similar to looping underspin by going through the side of the ball. What happens is that you either knock the ball off its axis or a topspin to the sidespin so you let the sidespin control the direction and you return with top.
Yes, the first is usually called "corkscrew" in its pure form. I have noticed that when I serve corkscrew, some people try to hit it like regular underspin and go round the side and get surprised when they can't overcome the spin in that direction. But when they hit it like regular no-spin or top going directly into the ball, they get a strong return that kicks off the table back at me. Again, I thank purple for making me think through this a bit more because I think that practicing it will enrich my service return game. |
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Against actual sidespin (vertical axis) tacky rubbers are useful since you can come over the top of the ball more easily. Or get underneath and load up the underspin. |
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"
wow can you really receive a pure sidespin serve by brushing only the
top of the ball to avoid the spin-axis? I never thought of that before,
i've always thought sidespin can only be countered by using the angle
of your bat to counteract the tendency of the ball to shoot sideways
(i.e. if the ball tends to go to the right then you angle your bat
towards the left a bit more)"
By avoiding the spin axis you can indeed put your own spin on the ball easier, but it needs to be a very fast motion, wrist usage helps there. Short sidespin you can go over it with the bat closed, needs to be fast and hit at the top of the bounce or a little earlier. How well you can negate the spin on the ball and replace it with your own depends on the spin you put on. So fast brushing action adds more of your own spin. It really works for any spin. |
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Just aim to your left to get rid of the sidespin
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