Your Strokes: Will Campbell Forehand

This month we have the privilege of taking a look at the forehand of our first junior player in Your Strokes, Will Campbell, a tournament player from Arkansas. Before I share my thoughts, though, I want to say the same thing I say to parents and junior coaches when I film competitive players myself. I am not Will’s developmental coach, and I’ve never seen him play. It’s not my call what he should do and where he should go technically is his game. All I can do is share some thoughts about the stroke pattern on the video and leave it to Will and his coach and family to decide what if anything to do with the input.

Grip

The first thing is that I like his intensity a lot! He has also worked hard to develop a technically sophisticated forehand swing path. It’s hard to tell exactly without a better close up, but his forehand grip looks quite extreme. It’s at least what I’d call an extreme semi-western, like Hewitt. But probably it’s even more extreme and closer to a full western. It looks to me like his heel pad is all the way or almost all the way…