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Being a beginner I have been trying to chop while serve. That also helps me to do a slow and low serve. The problem I have experienced many times is that constantly doing such serves leads to breaking the racket handle. The racket at times breaks into two pieces. I think this is possibly due to the jerk that adds up while doing a chop serve.

Any guidance on how to hold the racket for such chop serves or tips on what I could be doing wrong would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Wow! you must have wrists like a weight lifter! I would suggest that a handle snapping is a problem with you bat. Do you mean to tell us that you have broken a blade more then once (or even once for that matter) I have seen blades break. mostly one piece blades, and those are always splits not breaks.

You should never be able to break a blade on a serve. I always change my grip on the serve. I'm mostly holding the blade between my pointing finger and my thumb and don't even really hold the handle. What brand blade did you break?

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Yes, I have been holding the racket as you show in the pic, probably a lot of chopping along with the fact that the racket was not a branded one. Thanks for the reply

Unless
- you are hitting something other than ball, table or poor team mate for example, or
- Thrown, or frisbeed, or,
- you are blood related to Hulk, or Conan, or Samson, or Hercules, etc

I just cant guess, how you break your blade