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Wrighty67,
Watching your match with Tony, I think your wrist flexibility is better than I gave you credit for and I think you let Richard's style get to your head. People who play powerful shots can only do them against a certain kind of ball quality without putting themselves out of position so you need to construct the point very carefully and deliberately, usually with a short ball to the forehand side to move them out the position and then play long to the backhand. If someone has strokes like Richard, you need to make the ball go long on your terms, not on theirs. You don't let them do their thing and your blocks have to be deliberate, often down the line.
For your wrists, the most important thing you need to change is to be able to gently turn your wrists and fingers in the shape of the ball. IT sometimes really comes from circular rotation of the upper arm. But you may do it with the hips as well. But it isn't much, you don't have to do it extremely.
In the video you just shared, you are using way too much upper arm - most of the other elements are fine for now. Always have your elbow as the lowest part of the stroke as much as possible - straighten and bend you elbow slightly. It will force you to backswing better and use other body parts. Usually, when people keep their elbow as the lowest part of the stroke and avoid swinging across the mid line of their body, the adaptations it forces to the forehand and the backhand are usually favorable. Then the rest is grip and finger work.
I will make some video for you later this week/month when I get chance. But the main thing is to watch what the guy says about spinning the ball early in the video and note how develops the feel for rotating his wrists. I know you are advanced so it is a bit tough to go back to those wrist basics. But they help a lot for developing ball feel with experimentation.
IF in the video you just shared, your practiced doing a windshield wiper motion with the wrist to give the ball heavy to topspin while keeping the elbow low, it would be much better for what you are trying to achieve. Let me see whether I can find the relevant video.
Watching your match with Tony, I think your wrist flexibility is better than I gave you credit for and I think you let Richard's style get to your head. People who play powerful shots can only do them against a certain kind of ball quality without putting themselves out of position so you need to construct the point very carefully and deliberately, usually with a short ball to the forehand side to move them out the position and then play long to the backhand. If someone has strokes like Richard, you need to make the ball go long on your terms, not on theirs. You don't let them do their thing and your blocks have to be deliberate, often down the line.
For your wrists, the most important thing you need to change is to be able to gently turn your wrists and fingers in the shape of the ball. IT sometimes really comes from circular rotation of the upper arm. But you may do it with the hips as well. But it isn't much, you don't have to do it extremely.
In the video you just shared, you are using way too much upper arm - most of the other elements are fine for now. Always have your elbow as the lowest part of the stroke as much as possible - straighten and bend you elbow slightly. It will force you to backswing better and use other body parts. Usually, when people keep their elbow as the lowest part of the stroke and avoid swinging across the mid line of their body, the adaptations it forces to the forehand and the backhand are usually favorable. Then the rest is grip and finger work.
I will make some video for you later this week/month when I get chance. But the main thing is to watch what the guy says about spinning the ball early in the video and note how develops the feel for rotating his wrists. I know you are advanced so it is a bit tough to go back to those wrist basics. But they help a lot for developing ball feel with experimentation.
IF in the video you just shared, your practiced doing a windshield wiper motion with the wrist to give the ball heavy to topspin while keeping the elbow low, it would be much better for what you are trying to achieve. Let me see whether I can find the relevant video.
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