Points to look for:
- The player is still watching the ball, since he is looking to see the result of the serve. If he sees that the serve will successfully go low over the net and bounce twice on the opponents side of the table, he will look for an aggressive third ball. If he sees that he has not served a good serve (too high or too long), he will get ready for an attack by the receiver.
- The follow through is ending quite soon after hitting the ball, since the player wishes to make a quick recovery to a ready position.
- The shoulders, hips and waist have not been used as much on this serve in comparison to the forehand pendulum serves, since the player stays square to the table throughout the serve.
- As shown by the small blur trail, the ball is not moving forward all that fast, since much of the speed of the bat has been converted into spin.
- Note also that although the player's stroke was a mixture of forward and right to left movement (as viewed by the camera), the ball is moving straight forward. This is because the spin put on the ball tends to throw it in the direction that the bat is moving (forward and to the left), while the bat face (which was facing to the right of the photograph) tends to push the ball to the right. The left and right forces have almost cancelled out in this particular serve, producing a serve that is moving forward.
