How can something so beautiful to watch, a stroke so etched into tennis history, be so exploitable — and why have a dwindling handful of players remained loyal to it? By Matthew Futterman Reporting ...
Lorenzo Musetti's elegant single-handed backhand raises questions about its viability in modern tennis. Despite its artistry, ...
More than a year after his retirement, Roger Federer remains the poster boy for the one-handed backhand – tennis’s most aesthetic shot. Yet he could also be the key to its decline. When the ATP ...
Is the one-handed backhand back? Seemingly on the brink of extinction not long ago, there are now growing whispers about its quiet return to the upper levels of the men's game. The phenomenon first ...
The goal of professional sports has always been to win. Looking good while doing it? That's just a bonus for the gawkers and connoisseurs of bodily form in motion. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...
A lingering wrist injury has sidelined her two-hander, but on the grass courts of London, Karolina Muchova is making her one-handed improvisation look more like a calculated tactic. LONDON -- When ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Stan Wawrinka and his wondrous one-handed backhand managed to pull off a feat no man outside tennis's Big Four had achieved in the past 40 grand slams -- to win two major titles. It ...