Played a social game. Used a drive serve. Opponent got caught out with a clear winner. Opponent said to me my serve might be illegal. I asked him why. He said it was flat. I said he would need to show me which part of the rule book would say it was illegal. He couldn’t give specific detail.
Well if he can't give you a specific detail there's not much to discuss is there. How silly. Sounds like a poor loser.
I had someone call a service fault when I did the Chirag Shetty serve because I was moving my arms left to right confusing the receiver. Some people like to make the rules up as they go along, lol.
Sorry if this is a little off topic, but I feel it's in the same spirit. Today about halfway through a 2-hour singles session I was getting pretty tired, so I started playing high serves since it doesn't put as much pressure on my ability to move as a low serve. An opponent I hadn't played before made a bunch of mistakes trying to 'punish' my 'inferior' choice of shot; smashing it out the sidelines, smashing it in the net, and mistiming his jump smash. After I won the game 21-9, the guy told me with quite a bit of venom in his voice: "you might get away with this here, but at a higher level you can't keep playing these beginner serves". I didn't really get into it. He was probably more angry with himself than with me. There are certainly players where I would be more reluctant to play high serves against, and usually it's pretty clear when I need to just suck it up and play short serves. But this guy was not dangerous from back and even if he would have gotten some smashes on the floor off my serve, I would probably keep playing high serves because he was making so many mistakes.
Well, you can get away with high serving until you're around pro level really, better in a lot of instances. Certainly not a beginner level move.
This is a funny story on so many different levels. Does he really think he can get you off the long serves with that nonsense? Cause obviously you’ve discovered and explored a major weakness in his game. When did this rumour start to spread that the short servers In low- to intermediate level single is the way to go? A good long serve gives you a so much more controlled start of the rally, seducing so many players to play weak attacking shots out of sheer impatience. Also, you can play many variations in terms of height and speed - even if you have a good smasher on the other side, a more flick-like flat and fast serve can be amazingly effective. The short serve on the other hand pressures the server a lot since there are so many opportunities on the return of serve shot that need to be covered.
If someone beats me after nearly 2 hours of low serving in singles I'm saying NOTHING other than "well played". I got told off for wearing a yellow shirt once. I'm definitely guilty of it myself in the past. Salty comment rather than diagnosing where I could improve. On the flip side, it was so refreshing at a match to have the opponent call their own shot out, and take the time to congratulate our players on a well played shot. Sent from my SM-A315G using Tapatalk
I play at a level you can't call intermediate anymore, so the high serve is a rare sight. And when I say high serve, I mean a high, dropping vertical deep in court kind of serve. I'm not really looking to play variations, since the strength of a high serve is not in its surprise. And since I was tired I was looking to slow the game down and playing faster shots will generally come back faster. The funny part to me was that he was right when he said that I couldn't play like that at a higher level. There are players that, if they can get behind the shuttle, it doesn't matter much if its on the backline, they can thunder it down and I will lose points. It's just that my opponent yesterday certainly wasn't one of them. He gave his 'advice' with a tone and attitude as if he is a higher level player, after proving on court he wasn't. It's like he was saying: "if you knew how to play properly I would have won". Which is hilarious.
I remember taking part in an amateur tournament in Thailand and every time we played a flick serve the umpire would call a foul. We were later told to abstain from playing high serves as it may lead to a fight (no joke). Even in training sessions in my country we are conditioned to apologize to the opponent every time we won a point off a flick serve because it's seen as a scrub move.
