Chopping a very low side spin serve
Receiving
Redwan Alif Asked 12 years ago
Sir, I found some players serve fast side spin serve often it's difficult to understand whether it's a pendulum serve or the reverse pendulum and these serves come very low. kindly tell me how to return these sort of very low side spin serve in both singles and in doubles. I have seen some players when face those kind of serve they return it with a kind of chop short from outside the table, which is a bit different.
Thank you
Alois Rosario Answered 12 years ago
Hi Redwan,
Yu can push or chop it back as long as the server doesn't have a strong attack. If they do, then a chop return will be dangerous.
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