Watched this video in the background and tuned in just for the technique demonstrations. What's truly incredible to me about her game (and you can see this in some of the actual games she plays in the videos above) is the lightning-fast transition from the pips backhand to the forehand drive/smash she uses. She demonstrates this starting at around the 35-minute mark.
Lots of us who play primarily a close-to-the-table blocking style stay in a backhand-dominant stance and so find it hard to get around for a forehand unless the ball is coming in slowly. She doesn't have this issue. First, of course, she stands in a more neutral stance, and yet when taking the ball with her pips, she still generally steps forward with her right leg, putting her in a backhand stance. But she then quickly brings her right leg back into a neutral stance. What's more significant, however, is that to do her forehand, she hardly pivots her body at all and uses a very short and compact forehand motion to pound the ball. As a result, she loses no time whatsoever in turning around from backhand to forehand. I'm sure it takes a long time to develop this kind of touch, but it's something worth practicing.
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