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Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack
to my eye this actually looks like a mechanically simple forehand, by modern standards. The racquet face flip doesn't seem as extreme as Sinner's. The full body torque and release seems Carlos-like, and I hope for both of them it it doesn't cause durability issues down the road.
What's scary is that the Joao backhand in my opinion is technically ahead of Carlos. Once he bulks up his serve and gets more aggressive about moving forward to build pressure, he will be pretty much unstoppable. That being said, the current edition of Carlos looks insanely dialed in and is done effing around for the entertainment factor.
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Yeah, it almost looks like a hybrid of the modern forehand (Novak is a good example) and the NextGen forehand (Tiafoe and Kyrgios are good examples). He doesn't have the tip of his racquet pointing at his opponent, but it's also not pointing straight-up either. How Sinner pulls off the slingshot forehand with his racquet face pointing at the back fence is incredible, but also explains the power in that stroke.