Ghost Serve

Stephen Unknown Asked 15 years ago

I've seen on youtube about Ma Lin's ghost serve and I've been wondering if you guys can do it and show a tutorial to do it?

Alois Rosario Answered 15 years ago

Hi Stephen,

We will try to get to that one.  Basically it is a heavy backspin serve.  The backspin stops the ball and makes it come back towards the net.

You will see the ball travels reasonably slowly for this to get the effect of the ball coming back.  If there is too much forward momentum the ball will go off the table before it has time to spin back.