Bigger forehand: Verdasco or Sock?

[thomasferrett]

These guys are a similar size so their leverages are similar for a fairer comparison.

Verdasco's technique is very similar to Nadal's; modern with a straight arm at contact for more leverage over the ball.

Sock's contact point is very bent-up and contorted looking, but he compensates by having that ultra-modern Khachanov/Kyrgios type of motion where the racket head points towards the ball for much of the backswing, then snaps backwards at the last second from where it whips forwards again to contact. So the acceleration is more violent to compensate for the lever-arm being shorter than a straight arm at contact allows.

So they have different ways of hitting huge forehands. Whose is bigger?

 

[Steve0904]

Verdasco. Not even close.

 

[Third Serve]

Verdasco by a country mile

 

[sredna42]

Verdasco IMO, though the power and spin kyrgios and sock get with that violent slap cannot be denied, just seems to fragile

 

[Shaolin]

I love the Verdasco fh but Sock's has more pace and spin by far.

 

[Deon Sanders]

A masters title, equaling doubles WTF title, and 3 more slam doubles titles puts the nonexistant Sock carried only by a forehand ahead

I think he broke the RPM meter. Not like it helped.

 

[Sudacafan]

Verdasco, when hawkeye says IN

 

[Bukowski]

I’m not so sure I’ve seen Sock flatten out a forehand. Just a lot of those overly spinny balls into the middle of the net.

 

[Sudacafan]

Who’s Sock?

 

[Deon Sanders]

Who’s Sock?

The guy with more big titles than Roanic, Thiem, Goffin, Nishikori, Anderson, and Monfils

Just to name some

 

[Sudacafan]

The guy with more big titles than Roanic, Thiem, Goffin, Nishikori, Anderson, and Monfils

Just to name some

And none of Sock’s Big titles were on clay... silly me!

 

[Deon Sanders]

And none of Sock’s Big titles were on clay... silly me!

Ryan Harrison has a big title on clay

Sums that about up

 

[Sudacafan]

Ryan Harrison has a big title on clay

SSums that about up

A big one? Which one?

 

[Deon Sanders]

A big one? Which one?

Well in the sport of clay tennis he has his name etched on a trophy for his doubles win

Im sure people more versed in the sport could explain the significance

 

[GoldenSwing]

Bigger?
Verdasco

Better?
Sock. Top spin and manipulating the ball makes you a much more lethal player (Verdasco has decent top spin himself)

 

[BasilashvilitheGOAT]

Verdasco has better FH but bigger would be right.

 

[Sport]

Sock for the career as a whole, peak Verdasco for the AO semifinal.

 

[Nadalgaenger]

I have watched both up close and can say Verdasco.

 

[Nadalgaenger]

Bigger?
Verdasco

Better?
Sock. Top spin and manipulating the ball makes you a much more lethal player (Verdasco has decent top spin himself)

Sock more lethal? Why isn’t he more successful? All mental?

 

[Nadalgaenger]

What about Thiem vs Sock?

 

[OldschoolKIaus]

Gasquet.

 

[Sudacafan]

Berasategui, from Honolulu

 

[Sport]

What about Thiem vs Sock?

Thiem easily.

 

[Jaitock1991]

Surely the guy in my avatar has more racquet head speed on the forehand than Fernando, as big as Fernando's is. Some of the forehands I've seen Sock hit were out of this world in terms of pure power(spin and velocity). But his technique is very limited, so overall I'd still say that Fernando has a better forehand than Jack.

 

[Third Serve]

Gasquet.

Paire

 

[Easy Rider]

Verdasco.

Once, my players asked me to do analisys od Socks FH ... Oh, boy, that was ugly to watch in slowmo

 

[QuadCam]

Sock more lethal? Why isn’t he more successful? All mental?

Because Sock has the backhand of a 4 year old