A Serve for Everyone - The Backhand Serve

The Backhand Serve is a serve that anyone can use and should use.

It’s a great serve for those that are new to the game, it can be easier to control because it’s in front of the body and easier to see what’s happening too.

Equally, it’s a great serve to develop throughout your career. You can develop more spin, more variations and deception too.

We’ll be looking at all of the above and much more in this video. If you’re already using a backhand serve, can you add some of these concepts to it? Or, perhaps this is your sign to start developing your backhand serve?

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[THan-td]

A suggestion: In your future videos, is it possible to use balls that make it easy to see the spin on the ball, something like Joola spin balls? It would then be super obvious to see the effects of the serve you are showing. BTW I say topspin at the end.

[maddean]

Ovtcharovs Backhand Serve got us out of boredom of just Pendulum serves everywhere.
He actually was awarded with “the best inventions 2008 award” by the times magazine. Just love the variety 😇

[harrysheffield]

Great video Craig. I enjoyed the captions on the RHS giving a breakdown of the constituent parts of the backhand serve. I realise now how versatile the BHS really is !!!

[TTKuzbass]

Very clear speech and super explaining. Nice to hear. Thx u for video.

[MrDaileonn]

Backspin 100% What helps is looking at the racket angle on contact. I played against someone recently who was really good at backhand serve and, like Craig, the arm/elbow motion is the same on all variations so that threw me off a bit the first times I faced it. Good thing for the receiver is that the racket is not concealed for very long so you have a opportunity to focus on the contact point. As for placement I always found this extremely hard to predict. Like Craig said, when the server maintains the same posture throughout their serves it really doesn't give away much and I feel like the backhand serve gives you such a nice angle for placing the ball anywhere you want. Definitely something I'll practice more!


Thanks for yet another great video, Craig!

[WynImmo]

Thank you Sir Craig for evey detail youve been showed for this serve

[ttcerchi]

Ciao from Italy, Thank you for you important advices! You are one of the best and we look alike 😅🏓

[chrislennartz]

great video! Thanks for your work. For me the most important part of playing backhand serve is indeed the grip. I am not the fastest to go back to shake hand after, for instance, reverse pendulum. Really liked the part on the different starting positions. I have come to like the far out position quite a bit recently, especially long with lots of side spin to the backhand side- ball moves off and then onto the table.

[philipjones]

great video, as newcomer to league TT will be working on this over next few months to add variety

[jonisiah]

I think it's backspin! I like to use the backhand serve from the left of the table. Will try your method of serving from the right side of the table. Never done that before 😅 . Thanks for the awesome tips!

[davidstevens]

Could we have a video or two on serves for when playing doubles as you don't have the whole table to play with? Thanks for all your great videos.

[ondrejsladek]

Hi Craig, Many thanks for sharing the backhand serve very detailed instructions! I am a beginner (or intermediate??), playing mostly doubles. Your useful tips will really help me to improve my serve, which is very poor now. I have to practice because "practice makes perfect". Please send some tips for playing doubles. Greetings from the Czech Republic!

[jameshamilton]

Awesome instruction. Many thanks for the content.

[alexfomo]

Lucky 😊 and Backspin
I am practising for some months but much closer to the net. I think yours is really good to add another variaty.

[naidron]

That helps soo much, more of that, thank you!

[masterspin]

I have been winning more with these basic serves it also simplifies the balls that return from your serves.

[barrycroucher]

Great Video. So useful to have a safe service but which isn't obvious to the opponent. Thank you

[tabletennisbuddy]

...even Samsonov close to the end of his career, almost exclusively, used backhand serve in his matches, and that guy knows a thing or two about Table Tennis :-) It appears that with the backhand serve you could potentially serve right and left (watch Kong Linghui's hybrid own-developed serve and the backhand Thanks for the vid! Big fan, as usual 🙂

[jpourson]

Hello Craig,
What is your rubber and the wood please ? 😊 just for information 😊

[Martydogable]

Great video, top spin is what I see….I watch a guy’s channel called Loosee Looee who does a backhand serve with backspin that makes the ball come back to the net, I can make the ball stop but not come running back to the net, any idea what the trick is?