Ards Spring League 2026 Player Results
Weekly Training Update - 25/07/2026
This week I've been working on 2 serves that I'd more or less abandoned in favour of the pendulum and reverse pendulum service but re-discovering how useful they can be. The first is the lollipop or windscreen wiper serve, a serve which had disappered from the game until made popular again recently by French star Alexis Lebrun. With the assistance of my return board I noticed how much top and sidespin was possible with this serve, a prodigious amount but it must be served short otherwise its vulnerable to counter-attack. I was unable to serve the backspin version. I was able to do both the backspin and topspin versions of the hook serve. There was definite topspin but not as much as with the lollipop serve and a lot of backspin. This is a definite antidote to my usual backspin serve. I'd noticed a lot of unwanted sidespin with this, probably a sign that the bat is tilted although it seemed perpendicular. Its important to look at the ...
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