The power and heavy topspin of a double-handed shot have made it a popular choice Add as a preferred source on Google Roger Federer executing one of his sublime single-handed backhands at the 2019 ...

PARIS—Are all tennis aficionados really just backhand obsessives in disguise? Because it can be hit in a variety of ways—two-handed, one-handed, drive, drop, chip, topspin—and because its path across ...

Olympia Ohanian, daughter of 23-time Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams, is at it again, flexing on social media with her killer tennis moves. The 4-year-old, who has 630,000 Instagram ...

Is the one-handed backhand a dying art? Roger Federer has taken the seemingly slow demise as a personal insult, but Laura Robson says "vintage always comes back". Former US Open champion Dominic Thiem ...

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. In professional tennis, the "beauty ...

Statistics show that the double-handed backhand is now the dominant choice among professional players. It gives more power and control on return of serve and on high balls, which are two crucial areas ...

Richard Gasquet also stroked the ball one-handed aesthetically but the sport's most elegant shot is being bullied out of the elite game Simon Briggs writes about tennis, cricket and a variety of other ...

Roger Federer’s latest struggle against Rafael Nadal in the Italian Open finals was a microcosm of eight frustrating years of French Open futility against his Spanish nemesis. There is little, if ...

Stefanos Tsitsipas has stated that he switched to using a single-handed backhand at the age of eight to emulate Roger Federer. Throughout his storied career, Federer was known for his single-handed ...