Receiving serve before year 2000
Receiving
Yap Zhi De Asked 9 years ago
Hi Alois
I am curious about how you return serves before the year 2000 when a new rule says that you cannot block the contact of the ball when serving. Before that you cannot watch the contact of the ball as your opponent may have blocked the contact with their arm.
Alois Rosario Answered 9 years ago
Hi Yap,
I think because players didn't have the contact to rely on, they used to watch the flight of the ball more closely and adapted.
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Yap Zhi De Posted 9 years ago
I know that you are an athlete before the year 2000 representing Australia, so can you tell me how you watch the flight of the ball more closely and adapted? So in future, if I did not see the contact well, I can watch the flight of the ball.
This comes with experience. When you are forced to watch the ball in flight you start to pick up subtle differences. The backspin will float more, the topspin will dip more, the sidespin will curve.
D K Posted 9 years ago
Backspin fights gravity force,so it will fall slightly slower.
Topspin cooperates with gravity,so it will fall a bit faster.