How to deal with backspin and no spin serves

Receiving

Nathan S Asked 12 years ago

Hi Alois,

i watched your video about the service variations. Is there a way to deal with those serves? How do you read the spin?

Alois Rosario Answered 12 years ago

Hi Nathan,

We have a series of lessons on reading spin and dealing with it in our Receiving Secrets lessons.

This is a critical area of the game and one that takes a lot of instruction. However once yo understand the principles you will be able to learn how to deal with any types of spin.

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