Your Strokes: Phil Picuri Forehand

An experienced player with a solid technical forehand. It had to happen sooner or later. After 5 years of publication, our first repeat appearance in Your Strokes! On the second go round, we'll analyze the forehand of our long time friend from Switzerland, Phil Picuri. (Click Here to read the Your Strokes I did on his serve 4 years ago.) Phil is an accomplished player as well as an advanced student of the game, if you follow his posts in the Forum. He has wins in 5.0 tournaments, and his legs still look springy as a deer, having reached the prime of his career at age 65. Phil had already posted some links to his groundstrokes in the Forum, but I asked him if I could do a fuller analysis of his forehand in Your Strokes. This was in part because of the quality of the video and that gorgeous red clay court. But another major reason is the great camera angle. That rear view allows us to focus on the key relationship between technique and timing, a relationship that is often overlooked by players trying to make technical improvements. So what does that rear camera angle show? Well, first,...