Also coming from Table Tennis (10+ years competition).
So if the wrist is the focus, even more important to let the ball 'in'. You can try it for yourself. put a ball on a table slightly in front of you, close your stance, and try to move the racket to the ball. you will almost have to use your wrist to control the direction/impart power. It will be very difficult to not move the wrist at all and hit the ball solidly.
Now do the same, but get the position where the ball is much closer to you, between your two legs, you will see you can hit the ball without using the wrist, and the direction you can control with where you hit the ball (a bit more in front => cross, in the middle => paralel, a bit behind => open angle). This is the natural 'movement' of our body.
`1st try:`
`Ball front leg back leg`
`O | |`
`2nd try:`
`front leg Ball back leg`
`| O |`