Playing long pimple attackers

Dilena Kulasinghe Asked 12 years ago

Hi Alois and Jeff

I'm Dilena and I'm from Melbourne, I am having troubles of playing people that attack only with their long pimples.

Alois Rosario Answered 12 years ago

Hi Dilena,

This style of player can be difficult to play.  The ball will come through slower than you feel it should and also the spin will be reversed.

When the attack with the pimple if they brush up on the ball strongly, it will tend to neutralise a topspin to some extent but primarily the ball will come back to you will little rotation either way, just like a flat slower ball.  If they attack your backspin ball they may get a fair bit of topspin going back to you.  However the ball will still move through quite slowly.

In the main it is becoming used to these different reactions of the ball than we are used to.  If you can try to play against them as often as possible.  Do you play in a club?  If so, find some players that use the long pimples and try to organise some practice sessions with them.