Long pips vs. short pips

Tevia Sapire Asked 14 years ago

Hi pingskills,

 I recently played a friendly doubles match where my partner used long pips on his backhand and inverted on his forehand. Our opponents were one attacker, and one player with inverted forehand and short pips backhand. I am a very aggressive attacker. So the match had a quite a bit of variety.

I can play both long and short pips effectively(after lots of practice), but when by partner hits with his long pips to the short pips i started to get confused of the spin that would then come to me. I find its too much to think about at once(what spin was played to the long pips, what the long pips player did, what spin that created and then what would come off the short pips, and what the short pips player did to the ball). if i made an error in judgement the opposing attacker could capitalize. 

The opposing attacker also had problems with this.

I was wondering if you had any tips for this problem?

Thanks

Tev