Playing against phantom rubber

Vishwa Kalra Asked 12 years ago

hi .. first of all,,, lots of thanks and credit to u for my 4th position in the tournament i participated in...

thanks for your all answers and your videos which helped me in defeating the opponent who was gold medalist last year by 1-3 in best of 5 sets....

but that was the story till quarter finals....
but when i reached semi finals, i was facing a player who was using a Phantom Long Pimpled Rubber... he was chopping the ball, and some times it was simply back spinning and but sometimes it was i think top spinning or floating up a bit....and that was to with a slight change in the way of chopping...,... and that messed up my semi finals and 3rd place match.... almost 40% if the total participating players were using PHANTOM LONG PIMPLED RUBBER on one side and YASAKA ANTI SPIN on the other side.....

so as when they use to chop the ball, the ball after hitting my bat, goes at a height where they could counter it easily with that anti spin side....

welll i am having another tournament from 16 to 19 august.... and i wanna prepare myself for that.... so kindly help me by sharing that technique of playing with these long pimple players.....how they can do that back spin and topspin or float with nearly the same action...

Alois Rosario Answered 12 years ago

Hi Vishwa,

Well done on your result.

Dealing with the long pimples will be a matter of feeling the effect of the rubber.  The biggest factor as to what spin you get is what spin to give it.  If you topspin the ball you will get backspin and if you play with backspin you will get topspin.   This means that you can script what type of spin you want to come back.

I like to serve with backspin to the pimples and get a topspin ball returned that I can attack.  The heavier the backspin serve the more topspin will come back.

We have a lesson as part of our Match Strategy Course on Playing Against Long Pimples.  This  is available to our Premium Members.  This wold be a worthwhile investment before your next tournament to see how we explain the technique of playing long pimples.