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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 ...
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One-handed backhand nearing extinction: Federer, Wawrinka, Thiem—the artists who resisted
Federer, Wawrinka, Thiem, Tsitsipas Mastered the One-Handed Backhand—But at What Cost? Roger Federer made it a symbol of fluidity and variation, even if he often paid the price at Roland Garros ...
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 ...
As Stefanos Tsitsipas loads up and uncoils into a full-swing, his broad shoulders rotate and in a blink, the racquet violently explodes into the ball. His right arm continues carving an arc, a ...
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 ...
Today is a historic day, as there are no one-handed backhands in the Top 10 for the first time in ATP rankings history. Stefanos Tsitsipas, who was the only man left in the Top 10 with a one-handed ...
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 ...
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