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An amazing ability to hit untouchable winners. Does Juan Martin Del Potro have the biggest forehand in tennis? You might conclude that, at least for the duration of the 2009 U.S. Open on a fast hard court. Although we don’t have any measured spin data, the shot seems relatively flat and is definitely hit with supersonic pace. When you saw Del Potro set up on many balls during the Open, even in the final against the great Roger Federer, you could just feel that an untouchable winner was coming. If we break the stroke down technically, we can see that it is a fascinating and in many ways unusual combination of the multiple technical elements we’ve been studying for the last few months in the new forehand articles in the Advanced Tennis section. (Click Here.) So that’s what we’ll do in this article. If you want to see additional footage of his forehand, including movies to click through frame by frame for yourself, check out the Interactive Forum (Click Here.) Flavor of the Month One of the common fallacies I have observed in studying professional technique over the last few years is what I call the “flavor of the month.”…