Definition: In table tennis, a kill is a stroke played by a player with the intention of putting so much speed (and sometimes spin as well) that the oppenent cannot return the ball.
Kills hit with speed and little spin are also called smashes, while kills hit with speed and a lot of topspin are often called loopkills or powerloops.
Kills hit with speed and backspin are rarer (since the ball needs to be quite high to perform the stroke consistently), and are sometimes called chop smashes.
Also Known As: smash, loopkill, powerloop, chop smash
