Serving in doubles

Hi Dave,

The best type of serve for doubles play differs depending on your team’s strategy, your opponents’ strengths, and your playing level.

In general though a good serve in doubles is a short serve close tot he middle line of the table.  As you are only serving to half a table, doing a long serve makes it too easy to attack by the receiver.  Serving the ball close to the middle decreases the ablates that the receiver can use on the return.