She can cut the angles off the court with the delicate wrist snap of her crosscourt backhand, and she has the energy to go deep into a match without fatigue.
On the T415, you can flip open the jet-black cover with a wrist snap, making the whole affair look like the descendant of the "Star Trek" tricorder (or its ancestor, depending on how seriously you take "Star Trek").
Unable to counter the lion tamer's wrist snap on the uncanny strokes of Paradorn Srichaphan of Thailand, a disappointed Agassi quickly stuffed his racket bag after his straight-sets loss and hustled off Center Court, his mind moving forward, not back.
With the reflexes to gobble up Sampras's 125-mile-an-hour serves, with the calm to endure the pressure of his first Grand Slam final, with the wrist snap of a lion tamer on his passing shots, Safin played a nearly flawless match against one of the greatest players ever.
Move, think: I turned sideways, began running back using a crossover step, stopped, pointed up with my free right hand toward the descending ball, brought my racket back over my shoulder, contacted the ball with a wrist snap — and watched my overhead smash hook, decidedly, a long yard off the court.
He'd try one of his scary forehand drives, the whole arm whipping around so fast and the wrist snap so fluid that it's like watching a thick rope flicked and hissing, and he'd uuunhh the way he does as his racket meets the ball, the sharp grunt that for an instant would be the only sound in the stadium, and then the ball would splat straight into the net.
I don't read this one too often, as every time I pick it up my wrist snaps.
The thick, juicy crowns are astonishingly brittle, and one, as thick as my wrist, snapped clean off with a very gentle pull.
When asked how he manages to play for so long, Kid Millions uses words like efficiency and sustainability, demonstrating with tight wrist snaps how he regulates every drum stroke to maximize articulation and minimize the expense of energy.
Fortunately it was nothing like as serious as the problem Murray had last year when his racket wrist snapped in Germany, causing him to miss both the French Open and Wimbledon.
Rivera draws his arm back and throws, but David Cone, Andy Pettitte and others believe that Rivera's greatness stems from what happens right at the end of his delivery: his hand extends far out in front of him and his wrist snaps and the ball is released, like a buggy whip.
