Points to look for:
- The player has begun to watch the ball again, 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 has ended 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 all turned a little more to the player's left, which will reduce the amount of movement necessary to get into a neutral ready position.
- 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 left to right 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 right), while the angle of the bat face (which was facing to the bottom left of the photograph) tends to push the ball to the left. The left and right forces have almost cancelled out in this particular serve, producing a serve that is moving forward.
