Dimitrij Ovtcharov's Tomahawk serve

Serving

Alex Bob Asked 12 years ago

Hi, so I was watching a table tennis video and I saw this interesting sidespin(I think) serve.Could you make a tutorial video about this please?

Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X14GhK6bPvs The serve is at 0:32 .

Thank you and have a nice day !

Alois Rosario Answered 12 years ago

Hi Alex,

We have lots of lessons about this type of serve. It may look a bit different but it is just a Tomahawk serve.

In this point Ovtcahrov serves it long to Joo Se Hyuk's forehand because he wants to entice an open rally.

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Shripathi ramakrishnan Posted 12 years ago

this may be a bit off topic but joo played amazing that match! he played superb offense off many of ovtcharovs serves!

Diego González Posted 12 years ago

I think that Ovtcharov has not been using very much this serve in the last year, is it maybe for some sort of fault while he does it?

Alois Rosario from PingSkills Posted 12 years ago
Diego,

The serve looks OK to me.

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