Tutorial to improve your Table Tennis skills with World Champion 1993 Jean-Philippe Gatien.
Receive on short services
The main goal of table tennis is to take the advantage of the rally before your opponent in order to finish the rally before him or to urge him to make a mistake.
This results in a general tendency of players, especially at high competition level, to play short serves. It is therefore imperative that you are proficient in this type of service!
Receive on long services
The long serve is used by many players to surprise the opponent or to voluntarily give him the initiative in order to counter better. You must consider this and be careful to avoid your opponent’s traps! You must have a very high level of concentration and think constantly about positioning a tricky ball for your opponent.
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