Using long pips is the fastest way, without any doubt, to improve the result of your game, because people have really limited opportunity to play against long pips style around them. There are two facts can prove this perspective. 1) Long pips is not a popular play style in the world, so it mean people do not often have chance to play against long pips style; 2) The feature of long pips rubber are different from brands to brands, so there are really few players who use same long pips rubbers and it further lowers the opportunity for people to play certain long pips styles.
Number #2 Serve
Improving serve is the second fastest way to improve your game if your USATT rating is under 2400. People would often come to me asking about how to deal with sidespin serve in their match, and they are often confused about the spin serve from their opponents. Directly miss or returning a highball are two main mistakes people often made. Oppositely, receiving is the biggest problem among beginners, and it also shows you that having a good serve means having a lot of advantage in the game.
One of my students, named A, is a left hand player who has a great serve. Although he has a lot of problems such as slow movement, bad forehand and so on. He often defeated players who had better techniques in tournaments, and the main reason is people have trouble to receive his serve and lose many points.
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