5 tips to return the impossible table tennis serves

5 tips to return the impossible table tennis serves
How difficult it is to return the pro’s table tennis serve, if you are a beginner in table tennis. Yes, it’s very hard to return the serve from the professional player. It’s very spinning.
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[@canicetang8837]

Excellent tips. The last one is the best. On top of that. If anyone wants to improve, then have someone video your game and especially specialized on the game part. You can focus on JUST the 'serve' and 'serve return' part. Separate your serves and serve return. For each point with your opponent's serve, ask yourself this: 1. What kind of serve did I expect my opponent made? "What can I tell what his/her pattern of toss, gesture, motion of their paddle hand", specifically with the moment of the contact of the ball? 2. Was I anticipated correctly? As to the right spins, location, speed, bounce and the cadence in terms of momentum? Did I have the proper preparation of the right footwork? Have I done even to cover the table to have more than enough time to place my paddle on the ball at the right height of the bounce? 3. Have I done enough with reading the spin and adjust my timing, paddle angle and the right amount of speed and energy into my return? 4. Did I made an excellent, good, decent or poor return from my question 1 to 3? And how the quality of my first return, or lacked thereof, affect the outcome of the point itself? 5. Was my return quality good enough to immediately gain an upper-hand, neutralized it at a 50-50 ball where my opponent has to push return for his/her no gain, or they took immediate advantage because of my poor initial return. When you made a spreadsheet or a tabulation over this. Table Tennis is such as fine margin sport where you must keep your serves and stealing one or both points from your opponents' serve. The better percentages you can have on your serve returns, the better you are at winning the set, and the accumulation of sets for the match. Especially say on a very crucial or pivotal set where you are tied 7-7, and your opponent serves the next two points. Then automatically you should be completely focused on all aspects of every point. A. If you can return really well and take the next two points from your opponent. Immediately, you are 9-7 up and serving the next two points for the set or match. A huge momentum swing for you and concern for your opponent. B. Supposed you got one out of two and now the score is 8-8. You are still in charge of the match if you can stay calm and serve out your points to be ahead 10-8. Even though your opponent would once again have the serve. But serving down 8-10, rather than at 9-9, or even your opponent taking your two serves away leading 10-8. The mental stage for both you and your opponent would be so much different when you are ahead or behind. That is huge. C. If you did poorly on your serve return and now down 7-9. Unless you have a timeout remaining that you haven't use. I strongly suggested you to use it right away to talk to your coach, or just calm down to refocus on what you need to do on your serves in the next two points. You need both points to push back to 9-9 and not even afford to lose a single point to make it 8-10 to your opponent's favour, now with two serves needing just one of two to win. What the coach said in the 5 tips were crucial. However, the mental aspect of you to return your serve with quality becomes much more urgent. This is how even in a professional match where both players are close. Serve return abilities both great or poor, would be the deciding outcome almost every single time. How about the 2017 World Table Tennis Championship Men's Final between Ma Long and Fan Zhendong? The total points difference between the two was only 4 points for Ma Long after 7 maximum sets. Remembered what the Coach said about the fast long serve? You attack them often with the topspin? Well, as you can see. The returner (both Ma and Fan) was able to use quality return in push, flicks and other tactics to win gain the upper-hand and winning the point outright on subsequent rallies. In fact, the nervousness from both players at the serves and the excellent quality of the serve returns in both. Kept the score even at 9-9 with Ma serving the next two points. Finally Ma kept his first serve and first in 5 tries to be up 10-9. In the final and deciding 7th Set, especially when Fan was down under tremendous duress 9-10 at Ma's last serve to push into deuce, it was his calmness to unleash his killer backhand flick which got it done. Ma was immediately pushed to a defensive stance and Fan pounded three deadly shots, and the last on Ma's open forehand side to chase Captain Dragon completely out of position. Then at 10-10, Ma's careful placement of half-long underspin push return fooled Fan for an unforced error long. Finally, Ma got this serve and was FULLY PREPARED for what happened two points ago when Fan did that wicked backhand flick. If you look carefully, before Fan even executed his deadly flick, Ma knew EXACTLY THAT it would be at his backhand corner so he pivoted his feet very early, with the much wider stance to give him the time and space. Then unleashed his power with the pace of Fan's topspin to drill the ball down the forehand side - an extremely low percentage shot, but was perfect on the timing, paddle stroke, height of the flight and the power. The ball was literally on a rope and painted the line for the title. As the exciting Adam Bobrow said, "Ma Long pulled a Fan Zhendong out of Fan Zhendong!!!" How true that was! But there were a lot of tactics and preparations behind each and everyone of their shot plus their rationale for shot selection. I hope such detailed analysis will give an average fan or player of the depths in their mental game and focus on each part of the table tennis game. Thank You. Here's was that exciting match: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4i7cnR3max9bdE

[@pingsunday]

amazing. Thank you @Canice Tang

[@Nongdan68]

Rất hay. Thanks

[@diogarcia]

fantastic content video... I will study and it will definitely help me. Thanks!

[@coolgamemaster812]

Thank you for these tips. I can now return Timo Boll's serves.

[@canicetang8837]

I think if Timo offered $1,000 USD to any novice who could even return the ball back to the table, it would be very likely that Mr. Boll himself would not need give out anything at all hahaha!

[@_.Madness._]

And I can now beat Ma Long.

[@steveezzoentertainment1870]

In a video about serve returns, you show players serving almost exclusively. You needed to show players returning serves instead. Love your channel, but this wasn’t one of your best videos.

[@yogeshmanav4234]

I agree with you, this video does not show players returning the service. Very Bad ! 😡

[@darrylkassle361]

Poor Emrat still has no idea at times.

[@larrythoman9661]

I agree. Almost like one of those clickbait videos that promise you something, but then never show what was in the thumbnail.

[@waihengchan2770]

Why don’t the clips show how the opponent returning the spin serve? It stops short and is most frustrating.

[@marcop174]

It can be helpful to return shorter services by using mirror technics. It often works. You can hold the racket like a mirror to every kind of spin. The ball will go on the table.

[@chienct5073]

Cảm ơn bạn nhiều!

[@Don_VitO]

OK, thnx)

[@longtreecityltc9325]

If you can get a serves you don't topspin it as a beginner. Instead you go backwards from the table. So most of the effect from the serve isn't there anymore and you put it back with some backspin. Works fine!

[@econometrics4119]

It is about how to receive serves but the video doesn't show the receivers most of the time. It shows players serving in slow motion.

[@waihengchan2770]

My point exactly!

[@user-lq3mg9nm7g]

And now point 5 in more detail

[@dedidukun2080]

Top..

[@adomasvaitiekunas9854]

This isn't really helpful to begginer players. They can't just topspin every long ball or flick every short ball. They'll most likely just ruin their technique.

[@gab5012]

A tip like this is more helpful to people who already have decent technique and need to work on their confidence to use them

[@fraezma]

Agreed

[@canicetang8837]

Yes, you really need some experience. But to give yourself time and space to execute topspin heavy loop on long fast serve is the key to win. When you stand too close to anticipate short serves and got hamstrung with your position and paddle severely cramped, no amount of slice or emergency chop can produce a decent or even an neutralizing return to trouble the server, who is more than ready to finish off the point at the next shot. I often coach my beginner players where they would be inexperienced and would facing a lot more fast long serves. The key is to relax and read the serve carefully, and the tendency of the location. Some of them after a while, could be able get it right and unleash a beautiful forehand heavy loop or flick onto the open side for an instant return winner. Again, it is not as easy as you think, but with practise, smarts and patience, anyone can do that. Besides, the 80-20 rules of short serves to long is still the key. Long serves should be done very rarely to keep your opponent guessing and not crowding the table for easy return or flicks. It should be used as a surprised serve to keep him/her honest.

[@rooky3526]

And even to decent players, this isn't really helpful. Just top spin bro, and you'll return it for sure. Yeah, real helpful....not.

[@yugandergada1621]

What did you show in this video? Serving tips or Serve receiving tips?? Most the video shows doing serves not returns.

[@MA_Short]

6.00" 😉😆😆😆

[@albertusaswin2012]

Let me quote two famous presenters, when someone asks about how difficult to return a very difficult serve. Jeremy Clarkson: how hard can it be? Richard Hammond: don't say that! Because it turns out to be very hard. But it is not impossible, with the right technique.

[@fvazquez64]

I believe table tennis is facing the same problems that movies: people are more focused in special effects using new rubbers and special materials in blades, that the game in itself... How can you play a nice match if you are not able to return the ball to the opponent?

[@Alexander-je7cd]

There are no visuals as how to return, only visuals of serves!!!

[@boredhatchi5297]

I was expecting technical information but these general things will not help me. I can relax, keep my balance, be smart, topspin, etc. but all these will not help anyone! what if any gave you an impossible or hard-to-read top or underspin serve, how can you return it??? think before you post, please.

[@BGG6969]

0 examples and the slow video repeating same move or serve is super annoying. Moreover, pingpong is practical not theoratical so no live examples of short videos for profetional competitors practicing what is being explained how are we supposed to know how it's done. Please elaborate ur explanation with videos showing what is being explained.

[@KinshukJoshi]

Damn, I miss that beautiful and soothing voice of Coach Em-rat-thich.. The background voice sounds like an artificial intelligence robot or some kind of automatic neuro linguistic system. Humans don't use serial number before a sentence. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@brahms008]

Why did he stopped speaking himself?!?

[@harryharrison362]

@@brahms008 maybe he got a cold 🥶🥶

[@gab5012]

@@brahms008 possibly to save time and release post more repetitive content, his best videos where made years ago now he’s just remixing his old content and reposting matches already played in other channels to make easier money

[@brahms008]

@@gab5012 yes maybe. Sad if it's the case cause he is so knowledgeable and could bring so many valuable content in this ever changing sport.

[@gab5012]

@@brahms008Emrathicc has brought a lot of knowledge already, to be fair it's not easy to keep releasing fresh content when he's already covered a lot in the past. If you've seen his old videos he has covered many big topics, things like chinese technique, tactics, and fitness all the way to how to choose equipment. (Obviously tak ewhat he says with a grain of salt). But after covering that much on table tennis it's hard to come up with more fresh content regularly even though he still could

[@gerhardbeschorner2851]

Better you show the returns till the End. 😢😢😢

[@kakoyt4261]

Que estupidez, es un tutorías de cómo devolver los servicios, no de cómo servir.

[@pingsunday]

thank you. i will try to improve next time

[@TT4you]

so I didn't get it.. you still making a video for a beginners!? we all ready know how to play... the maggior difference that the pro, they are changing their rubbers every 3-5 days, they are prepared wery well from the childhood, they more capable then a middle class as we... but when you are making those videos after this years that we're with you, it seems to me that you kidding us ! but I love you as a coach... thanks so much ..

[@canicetang8837]

Please read my comments. You can see a bit more than what the coach said. He gave the sound foundation but I provide with far more. Hopefully that would help your game as well.

[@senthuraansivanathan1288]

Hi 5th comment

[@senthuraansivanathan1288]

I'm a under 13 tt player in srilanka, jaffna

[@cihanlifestyle]

your videos are always so slow and can be reduced to 1min... please improve your quality you have 134k subscribers and upload like a beginner... sry a bit harsh but it needs to be said

[@viciu080]

Annoying video with even more annoying slow motion and no actual tips presentation