Juan Martin del Potro Breaks Down his Famous Forehand

[Music] okay one Martine take us back to baby one how old were you when you first started to develop the forehand that we know and love today well I was a kid when I hold the first racket I was 7 years old and I had a lag because my my coach from from kid was a special coach on hard court so they teach me a different form than the rest of Argentinian player you know and I think that's why I have this kind of four hands working hard work yeah well I wanted to ask you that you have a little bit less of a Western grip you hit it a little bit flatter what does that all do to that coach or is that something that you think came naturally for you well I think now I'm doing naturally but I learned this this for tournament when I was a kid you know and then I've been working out every practice on my forum because I found that it's my my best shot on in the game and and I like to hit a flat in every surface because I I feel the ball going really fast and and I think it's it's a little bit different between my forehand and the rest of the players so I am 5'4 I'm more than a foot shorter than you are do you think it's possible for someone - technically develop a forehand like yours or do you think part of the reason it works so well is because you're almost 2 meters tall you know I think everybody can come get a flat fork and his depends of the technique and the coach who teach the forehand but I think it's just and specific technique - to hit flat but then you can use in all surface so it's it's not on that that difficult for cam but you have to to learn that some from kids so there's hope for me you're looking good amazing can you remember back to a particular forehand that you think is maybe the best that you ever hit whether it was the situation in a match or the reaction of the crowd is there one that sticks out to you or - yeah I take the final of the US Open against Russia I was to sit down and my fortune was a going that bad fire the fast but after the second set the grounds gone crazy with my with my four hands and I got too much power from the crowd so I was hearing harder and harder and then I became too to play my my best fortune ever and then I will also take a breaker against Dominic team yes I know this working and what you're talking about it was the said point I'm making the fourth set and he was amazing because after that winner I saw the crowd crazy and still remember that yeah well speaking I believe it was that shot that you're talking about a couple years ago at the US Open and it was turned into a little meme on Twitter with you holding Thor's hammer one martín Del Potro when you saw that and even Roger Federer tweeted it what was your reaction to that what it was funny to watch that every player was talking about my photon about my new nickname on Tauron and then I got a couple of summers on the tour to to perform from the tour and and I like this new nickname on me and still working hard to to get even better my friends on social media your forehand you in general but your forehand is a hot topic it's something that people talk about all the time when they're watching your matches you're on Twitter do you see any of that reaction and what's your reaction to knowing that it makes people so happy well I like when the people goes crazy about the part of my game you know I know how big is my fork and how the people loves my my fork and to so I'm trying to first to do my show of and then if I can play a special shot from the crowd I will do it fantastic well I think we learned everything there is to know about your forehand today except perhaps how to actually hit it but one martín Del Potro thank you so much and best of luck in Del Rey [Music]

Channel: Delray Beach Open

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Id: 5Gqe22kuAEo

Length: 4min 55sec (295 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 21 2019