Abstract The purpose of this study is to analysis and compare with the different effects on the serving range, serving spin, serving placement, serving type of Taiwan’s elite table tennis male athletes.8 elite male athletes who had participated in 8matches 44games during 2002 to 2005, were collected and analyzed by using a cross-tabulation to calculate percentage and,chi-square test was used to analyze the data. The study results found are as followings: 1. We found that about 82.09% of players use short-range serve. In the front of spin, 27.52% of male players prefer using backspin, and 26.08% of players use side-backspin, and then 20.19% use non-spin. In the front of placement, the 53.49% of players serve in the fourth area, and 28.61% of players focus on the second area. In the front of serving type, 15.50% of players focus on forehand side-backspin with short range to the fourth area. There are 12.74% of players use forehand side-backspin with short range at the fourth, and then 12.62% use forehand nonspin with short range at fourth, and 10.70% use forehand side-topspin with short range at fourth.2.There are no differences in different anitem(serving range, serving spin, serving placement, serving type)