Manika batra famously fooled chinese wang manyu on the saudi smaash in may, while she twiddled at match point, eleven-10 up, after trailing 8-10. Twiddling is rotating the tt paddle to interchange grips fast from backhand to forehand rubbers. Manika has been trained to twiddle for 15 years, however makes use of it rarely and continually with a hard hit that’s seldom effective.
In opposition to the arena no 2 chinese language although, manika expected wang could turn to head for the backhand, and flipped the grip playing natural placement on the block, sending it to her opponent’s forehand. It was unstable given the chinese are experts at countering, and had manika ignored, wang would’ve been back within the fit at eleven-11, and dragged her into a decider.The ‘twiddle’ comes from lewis carroll’s alice in wonderland books, named after the close to-indistinguishable twins tweedledee-tweedledum, and describes the imperceptible grip-transfer, performed with the aid of loosening the wrist on the grip for a fast trade.
Suppose daler mehndi’s bolo tara ra ra hook-step wrist-paintings, with a tt paddle, and you've got the bhangra twiddle.