This paper aims to discuss the techniques of receiving serves in table tennis, basically including pushes, blocks (flips), drop shots, unexpected flicks, lobs, drives, and smashes. In an actual table tennis game, pushes are not enough to deal with all kinds of serves. The complexity of the techniques of receiving serves leads to various possibilities of the practice of reception tactics. In a table tennis game, if we want to receive a serve well, we first have to make a correct judgment on it. Second, we have to use a correct technique to receive it. General players use only one technique to return the serves, but superior players, in general, use two or more techniques to receive to return more difficult ones. It is conceivable that in a table tennis game, in comparison with other techniques such as third-ball attack and rally, receiving serves is the most difficult because it is completely controlled by the server. There is no way to limit the skills of the server, and this greatly increases the unpredictability of receiving serves. Therefore, continuing to enhance the ability to receive serves and reasonably applying controllable techniques to receive serves are the keys to quickly upgrading the practice in the tournament.