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IMDB rating: 6.30 Plot: A kid dreams of playing professional basketball in order to escape his dead-end job, living in the suburbs, his bossy older brother and running his Mom’s ping pong classes. |
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Can Playing Ping Pong Improve My Tennis?
I finally got my ping pong table, it is up and ready to go (there was a hole in it on X-mas, we had to take it back 
). I have been beating my people and taking some CRUSHING defeats, ha ha. What I want to know is, Can being a "Ping Pong Playa" improve your tennis?
I wonder if there has been any professional tennis players that started of as a pro ping pong player? Do YOU know?
Thanks in Advance!
For sure, for sure bro. Federer played ping pong when he was younger. That is a fact and many other pros do it too when the weather is horrible and tennis is not an option. I remember starting with ping pong when I was young, when I started playing tennis. Woah, I became the best among my friends and had a 3.0 rating after like 6 months. Although I started a bit late, ping pong definitely helped because there is footwork in ping pong. Some people think it doesn’t, but that is because they don’t know how to play ping pong at an intermediate level. To this day, I play ping pong when it rains and tennis whenever it’s nice outside. Like that one dude said up there, they do compliment each other if you’re good at ping pong that is
The only difference between the two is the amount of strength you have to put in, point system, and some minor gaming techniques (serve) other than that it’s good practice for your tennis strokes and vice versa (slices, forehands, one handed backhand)
Hello Doggy | Jan 03, 2009
Only to an extent because of hand eye coordination. Since you don’t run in ping pong then no. You require more shoulder and arms muscles in tennis so ping pong won’t make much difference. Only the hand eye coordination.
The Invisible Hand/Illuminati | Jan 02, 2009
of course it will greatly help your hand eye if you do it on a consistent basis. I personally love tennis and ping pong… they go hand in hand
Joe Blow | Jan 02, 2009
well thats a bit odd !!! i was playing ping pong today and im a verry good tenis player (thats what i hear) and i suck at ping pong.. butthen i thought of a method of tenis like the way you hit the tenis ball and that rilly helped and its a bit like tenis i guess so yaa .. i think it can totaly aprove your tenis !!
Melanie S | Jan 02, 2009
basically wat everyone said, it only helps hand eye coordination, but IMO it cud actually hurt ur tennis, one summer me and my friend used to play ping pong at my house then go play tennis everyday, and it always felt weird wen we played the latter, so i wudnt recommend it
s_jam316 | Jan 02, 2009
I think Borg played ping pong in his early days if im not mistaken. The hand-eye coordination is necessary in this sport just like tennis. You have to put control on what you see coming at you….concentration is another key that you can combine with this plus of course the footwork.
Borgy | Jan 02, 2009