Novak Djokovic vs Jannik Sinner Forehand Comparison (Tennis Technique Explained) 

I made a tennis racket review video can you tell me what you think about it thanks 😎👍

You’re probably right. I think Djokovic plays closer to the baseline though so that evens out with how he can take time away from opponents. Thanks watching!!

And the good thing is sinner has so many years ahead

Hey Damien so glad keeping the off hand up is helping. It’s one of my favorite tips on the forehand. And yes the height is adjustable so you can lower it to knee level. To help with low balls, really work on swinging inside out/away from the body. The racket should go from below your hand to above your hand while hitting. They will put topspin on low balls. Here’s the link if you need it. Thanks!! topspinpro.com/ref/2minutetennis/

Yep. Thanks!!!

I agree. You are on point

Haha def coming at some point!

Agreed amazing video Two different grips with fed and Djoker two different forehands

literally just bend it suddenly and it will stop yourself

as you drop your racket head^

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Hey J A. maybe we agree and just call them different things. When you say full western what panel of the racket do you mean? Which panel would you say his index knuckle and heel pad are on?

You don't have to catch the racket if that doesn't come natural to you. It's more of a style aspect than a fundamental of the stroke.

I 100% agree with you Marcos! Thanks!!

What feels best is always subjective. Each person feels what’s best for them. Thanks for the comment!!!

Left hand raising gives you balance throughout the shot great video Ryan

I’m using coach’s eye but it’s discontinued. Try OnForm. It’s great.

@@2MinuteTennis hope it doesn’t get discontinued as well. Used Technique and they were discontinued as well. Love your great analysis on all vids. Thx!!

To you

Hey thanks for commenting!!

Yes , but there are tendencies.

No the height of the take back is not decided by ball height at the pro level

You are 100% correct. But my job as a teacher is to take into consideration who I’m teaching and who’s watching my videos. The vast majority of my viewers are over the age of 4.0, average athlete, and average level of play. If I start teaching “wrist work” I’m going to destroy people’s tennis games. I take my job very seriously. If people want a channel that’ll teach them exactly what Nadal or any other player does then they’ll need to find a new channel. Just like 5th grade teachers tailor what they teach for their students and don’t teach like they’re a college professor, I do the thing on my channel. I’ve taught for 25 years. It’s one thing to teach…it’s another for people to learn. I can teach until I’m blue in the face but if people can’t learn what I’m teaching then I’m accomplishing nothing. There are channels on RU-vid that focus solely on what advanced biomechanics of tennis. It’s entertaining and fascinating but to be honest I’m not sure how much it helps. My goal is to have the most helpful channel on RU-vid. That might mean I need to stay a “5th grade teacher”.

@@2MinuteTennis Thanks for your answer. Just to be clear, I’ve only been playing tennis for 8/9 months, but I do take it very seriously and play a LOT XD;. Furthermore, everything I do, I try to understand every bit of it; and if you play tennis for 8-10h/week for 8 months and spend a lot of time studying, you eventually do master top-spin and, in general, different forehand styles. That being said, yours is by far my favourite tennis channel, all media combined. Your explanation are crystal clear and I do try to learn a lot from them. So by no means was I criticising. Quite the contrary, I was genuinely trying to understand. Now the point is, trying to adopt myself the different styles of forehand, I’m under the impression that indeed, what actually makes the difference from one style to another, is indeed the wrist rotation that you’re able to achieve, which in turn translates into ball rotation. Of course you can obtain ball rotation by lifting the racquet up a little more, but it’s almost inconsequential when comparing it with what you can obtain with proper wrist rotation. Which is why Sinner’s forehand has more of it and he can hit harder; because indeed, by definition the racquet has way more rotational momentum for the mere fact that it’s flipping. However, the difference in ball rotation between the two styles is minimal if you don’t really make the whole extra rotation you can achieve with Sinner’s forehand happen. Which is the while point of my comment. In other words, what Sinner’s forehand allows you to achieve is a much more pronounced rotation, which in order to not be wasted you do have to let go till the back of your shoulders. If you don’t, not only are you kind of wasting energy, but you might also incur into injuries; because the acceleration you can generate is really HUGE for you to stop the racquet without hitting your shoulder non-dominant shoulder OR hard-breaking with your dominant shoulder. Unless you really let it flow… But it might be entirely wrong and just a misinterpretation of how things should work.

I think the modern forehand should be taught and acquired on the ama level, but without all the irrelevant aspects that make it too complicated. The differences between Djoko and Sinner on display here don't matter at all. If you focus on what they have in common (late/fast and takeback, body involvement, contact in front, 360 finish) you're good to go.

first of all, these are not modern forehands, they are contemporary, and if one would keep to the technical description they could be called post-modern, and they represent a retrocess from optimal form (biomechanics). And, yes, these forehands should not be mimicked either by competitive players or recreational. But I would be so bold to say: McEnroe did not play tennis. It was something, but not tennis. Of course this is an exageration, but I make it to make a point.

I think so. He seems to have more coil going into the shot. But any amateur getting Djokovic's coil will be very good already.

He uses a semi western. 👍

you are right. It is definetely west of semiwestern and quite possibly a western.

Thanks for watching!

I was simply showing that you can hit djokers type of forehand really hard. So hard, in fact, that it got to the other side faster than sinner’s. I wasn’t saying anything against sinner. I get tons of comments. Ans the comments I usually get say something like “yeah well sinner’s forehand is the new way to hit and it’s because you can hit it harder”. I was addressing those comments before they were even typed in the comment section.

@@2MinuteTennis do you truly believe it's untrue that sinner's technique allows him to hit harder than Djokovic? Are you saying that the increase of power is insufficient to justify the decrease in reproducibility? Or are you denying that there is any difference in power at all? I just want to be sure I understand what you are claiming.

@@bonzwah1 with all your double negatives I don’t even understand all the questions you just asked. The video speaks for itself. I Made the video and I stand by what I said in the video. If you don’t like my video you don’t need to watch it. I make enough content to make it clear my thoughts on technique. I have no problem if you disagree with me.

In addition, my channel isn’t a “what the pros do” channel. It’s a “what you should copy from the pros channel”. I’m not a news outlet. I’m not “reporting the news”. That doesn’t help anyone. My goal is to show rec players what they can copy from the pros to play better. Amateur players as a whole will hit much better forehands copying Djokovic that copying sinner. And the reason I know this is I have 25 years of coaching experience. The simpler the swing type the easier it is for them to use it and excel at it. Thanks for watching.

@@2MinuteTennis no double negatives present. But I'll take the fact that you are even talking about grammar as a sign of frustration. Please forgive me for confusing phrasing on my part. It's early in the morning and my brain isn't completely activated yet haha. That's fine if you don't want to engage. I just wanted to end on a positive note by pointing out that if I didn't like and benefit from your content I wouldn't have watched far enough into the video to even have these questions. So please don't take questioning as negativity. If I am asking, then it is because, for me, the video did not succeed in speaking for itself. But that's ok. You are under no obligation to correct that, especially if you find the interaction unpleasant. Keep up the good work. I appreciate what you do.

Everything ok?

Appreciate you watching!!

Ok

Thanks for letting me know!

Appreciate you watching!

Which player?

Yep you’re right!

Yes you are! Thanks!!!

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Easier for club players to copy Djokovic IMO

You are correct. Thanks for telling me!

Thanks for commenting!

Thanks for commenting!!

Lol

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What grip are they using then?

djoko: something west of semiwestern to just short of full western. Sinner: slightly west of full western almost Hawain. Of course that the only way to precisely know is to ask them to not disarm their grips and inspect their grips after a set of forehands- I wouldn't bet my house on it, but l would be very surprised if any of them fall any eastern of my estimates above.@@2MinuteTennis

Thanks for your thoughts