Bat angles on topspin strokes

Bradley Barnes Asked 12 years ago

Hello pingskills,

whenever i play a topspin stroke i close my bat angle (this is for all topspin strokes also varying speed and spin)... i am more consistent with my bat angle closed rather than opening my bat angle to a neutral position and  playing a topspin stroke in that way. i also find that i can get more topspin on the ball when my bat angle is closed...

would you recomend this stroke?... and what can i do to get out of the habit of closing my bat angle if it is giving me any disadvantages (i cant really find any however players have recomended that i change the stroke to its standard stroke) .

i am a shake-hand player by the way!

Best regards,

Brad (ttprodigy)

Alois Rosario Answered 12 years ago

Hi Brad,

You can close the angle of your bat to make this topspin.  Do you find that you get a lot of top edges of your bat?  If you d then you should open the angle more so that the ball is seeing more of the surface of the bat to hit.