How to keep serves short and low?

All this while, I have had formidable services for the level that I play at. Almost everyone faces difficult in picking my serves the first 5 matches that they play against me. 

anubhav1984 wrote: All this while, I have had formidable services for the level that I play at. Almost everyone faces difficult in picking my serves the first 5 matches that they play against me.  However, off late I have realized that in order to boost my game to the next level it is imperative that my serves be short and low and spinny as hell. Currently, there are hardly any serves that I can serve with 2 bounces on the table.  I am not sure what I am doing wrong but somehow I can only get enough spin when I snap my wrist hard at contact. But when I snap my wrist hard, the serve is usually too fast and almost always falls off the table after first bounce. It is low but it is too fast to be contained on the table for the second drop on the opponent's side. Any recommendations?

This article might help:

http://www.tabletenniscoaching.com/node/2408

One of the best tips I ever got on serving was that to serve short, the most important thing is where the first bounce on your opponent's side is (within a foot or a foot and a half from the net). It almost doesn't matter where the first bounce on your side is or how fast you serve. If you can consistently serve a low ball into this region, your serves will be fast and short, even if they have topspin.

First bounce closer to the net for short serve, how close will depends on how much spin, and pace of your serve, so you need to find out for yourself, and remember the ball will bounce as high as your contact point, so contact the ball closer to the table surface to keep the bounce low.

From what you're describing, you seem to be good at long serves. This is excellent, as most people try to serve short from the beginning. I will give you advice opposite to what NextLevel has stated. I think the first bounce is absolutely critical to the length of your serve. Try to get your first bounce somewhere in the middle between the end-line and the net. To achieve this, don't swing any more slowly, but instead, use the same fast acceleration that you have but stop the acceleration earlier. I'm not sure what the best way to describe this is, but the key to getting great short serves is that you have to make a "stopping" motion after the violent/serving motion. If you just make the violent, accelerating motion, but fail to "stop" it, you serve will go long or even past the edge of the table. 

Edited by NextLevel - 06/02/2016 at 8:03am

I do a version of those Dubina serves. But I never thought of them as fast-short and slow-short serves. We learn something new everyday, thanks.