How Do You Make Table Tennis Competitive Against A Weaker Player?
• Spot your opponent some points. • Play with your left hand (if you are right-handed). • Change your grip from shake-hands to pen-holder or vice versa. • Practice your defensive game and use just backspins, pushes and blocks. This will make the game even and will improve your overall game. Most champions are mostly aggressive and use topspin, but this player probably has a very good chop which he uses sometimes in his play mix. • Avoid using the smash and instead use pushes, drop shots, lobs, loops, slices, chops, blocks, flicks etc. • Switch bats to one with the pips out or a beginner’s bat. This is a good equalizer and the next best choice after “playing with your left hand”. Stay close to the table and develop that part of the game. It is a disadvantage to stay close to the table all the time for most players.
