The answer is yes. A big fat yes. There are 10 left-handed players in the top 25 and 16 in the top 50. That’s 40% of the players in the top 25 and 32% in the top 50.
Accordingly, how do you beat a left handed table tennis player?
Try to stay close to the table, shorten your stroke, and backhand loop to a good location. By attacking to the wide forehand with your backhand, you will usually force the lefty to move slightly back from the table. This is exactly what you want!
The Spanish sensation has won 20 grand slams and counting, with an astonishing 13 of them coming at the French Open. He has been a dominant force on the red stuff throughout his entire career, but has proven his abilities on the different surfaces, by winning at all found grand slams.
Besides, what tennis player is left handed?
Denis Shapovalov, the highest-ranked men’s left-hander not named Rafa, said, “I just play my game and go for my shots, so it doesn’t really matter, lefty or righty.” But there are lefties, then there is Nadal, and there is Nadal at Roland Garros, where he has lost only twice.
Is being left-handed an advantage in sports?
The study, published in the journal Biology Letters, suggests that being left-handed is a particular advantage in interactive sports where time pressures are particularly severe, such as table tennis and cricket – possibly because their moves are less familiar to their mostly right-handed opponents, who do not have …
What percentage of cricketers are left-handed?
If you look at the underlying proportion of left-handed batsmen in cricket, it varies across different playing populations, but typically falls in the range 15–25 per cent (made up of both naturally left-handed players and naturally right- handed players who bat left-handed), and this was similarly the proportion of …