Great stuff Hugh. Yes, the dynamic lag/flip on the Sinner forehand quite the contrast to the old school Medvedev forehand. Sinners forehand is certainly close to the Jack Sock forehand, which is perhaps the ultimate example of that type of technique. I personally like it, but there are the smallest of margins that determine the outcome of these matches. Who know what is best? Medvedev has had a great hard court run. To me, the party is over for him. The clay season is the bare knuckles portion of the season. Med, with his deficit spin game, is simply not in the conversation to me.
As I wrote in tradeoffs, there are perks to that swing perhaps, I just don't know that the current tennis environment rewards that swing over the simpler/fuller takeback of Djokovic et al. Agree medvedev will struggle on the clay, but as RG has played more like a hardcourt in recent years he can still play relatively well there.
Great stuff Hugh. Yes, the dynamic lag/flip on the Sinner forehand quite the contrast to the old school Medvedev forehand. Sinners forehand is certainly close to the Jack Sock forehand, which is perhaps the ultimate example of that type of technique. I personally like it, but there are the smallest of margins that determine the outcome of these matches. Who know what is best? Medvedev has had a great hard court run. To me, the party is over for him. The clay season is the bare knuckles portion of the season. Med, with his deficit spin game, is simply not in the conversation to me.
As I wrote in tradeoffs, there are perks to that swing perhaps, I just don't know that the current tennis environment rewards that swing over the simpler/fuller takeback of Djokovic et al. Agree medvedev will struggle on the clay, but as RG has played more like a hardcourt in recent years he can still play relatively well there.