Dimitrij Ovtcharov's Tomahawk serve
Serving
Alex Bob Asked 13 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 13 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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Backhand Tomahawk Serve
In this lesson we show you how to execute the Backhand Tomahawk serve. This is a good complement to the Tomahawk serve. By utilising a similar action, it will make it difficult for your opponent to tell which way the ball and spin are going.
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Shripathi ramakrishnan Posted 13 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 13 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?
Diego,
The serve looks OK to me.