Playing against anti-spin rubber player.

The anti can convert your backspin to topspin and the player can attack with the anti.

* Keep the ball low.
* Keep the ball as long as possible.
* Vary the spin.

This will make it hard vor him to attack with the anti.

It depends on the anti. The most extreme anti I know is Joola Toni Hold Antitop. This one has been "the" classic anti for many many years.
The topsheet is the most frictionless topsheet of all antis I know and the sponge absorbs the incoming power like no other sponge. If played on an extra slow def blade e.g. the classic Joola Toni Hold White Spot, even a smash can be blocked short if you have enough experience. The slow-down effect of the ball is really amazing. With this particular anti you can play a topspin like stroke on any incoming backspin ball and attack yourself. The rubber doesn't change the incoming spin and you get topspin for free. The more backspin, the more topspin very much like frictionless LP a la Dr. Neubauer. If you block a topspin with heavy spin the block will be a heavy backspin block just like the Neubauer stuff, but with less backspin, but the block will be much shorter. If you only play with a small amount of spin the anti will kill the spin entirely and you will get a dead floating ball. You have to get a feeling for how much of you spin will produce a certain result. If you don't have time to practice against anti you should use heavy spin to get a predictable result. Antis ulike frictionless LP do react to extremely heavy topspin and the blocks will get higher unless the player is *very* skilled.

Another extreme form of anti is Friendship 804 anti or the Stiga attack anti. These antis play like very mildly spinny normal rubbers or like very old rubbers. The effects of spin reversal decribed above will apply here too but the initial entrance level of necessary spin is much higher. The advantage of these rubbers is improved attacking possibilities against no spin balls because you can still make a little spin yourself. These rubbers don't have the super slow-down effect of the Toni Hold anti.

As you see, anti is not anti. The all behave differently.

So how do you beat an antitop player? Last I lost a game against an opponent who was lower ranked then me just because I didn't know what to do against him.

He served long and fast to my backhand and I had to return the ball high as a result he could smash and get the point. When I pushed against the antitop the ball also got high. When I wanted to attack the ball went wide...

help!

Justchill wrote: So how do you beat an antitop player? Last I lost a game against an opponent who was lower ranked then me just because I didn't know what to do against him. He served long and fast to my backhand and I had to return the ball high as a result he could smash and get the point. When I pushed against the antitop the ball also got high. When I wanted to attack the ball went wide... help!

 

hahaha? okey than you are not good my friend

* Attack first.

* Use speed to return ball quickly to his forehand (I believe he is using anti on his backhand)

always consider the incoming ball without spin

varghesep wrote: I've hard time playing against anti-spin players. I'm a chopper, and is very hard to chop as well as to keep the ball is very hard. Any suggestion how to defend against anti-spin? �

It would help if you include your bat/rubber setup in your signature :-)
Assuming you are a LP BH and inverted fh: An Anti hitter would love to hit at your lp BH?. Can you twiddle and chop heavily over the table with yr inverted instead of the lp
So what are your rubbers and a bit more detail please

FH: Bryce
BH: Tackifire-S
Schlager Carbon Blade

 

My opponent is so close to the table and is at the center. His anti rubber generates spin, and he sets me up for returning high. It may be my mistake too giving the returns high enough for him to hit. I'm a defensive player, so my chops puts him into trobule sometimes. The problem is that when I return his ball, "sometimes" the ball does not generate enough spin, goes high, and he hits hard in a weird angle. When I try to lower the ball, he gives me high ball to return high - he sets me up.

 

you should be comfortable with floating balls. try practicing bh-bh counter/push with floating balls. TS against floating balls. Once you are comfortable with floating ball, anti will not be a problem for you any more.

varghesep wrote: What do you mean by floating ball.

A ball without any spin on it. there is no spin on the ball, so it floats on the air :). you have to learn to be comfortable with this kind of balls.