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 ...

LONDON, July 5 (Reuters) - For tennis purists the sight of a single-handed backhand pinging off the centre of a racket is a joy to behold but it is becoming rare and Grigor Dimitrov, one of the best ...

Behold my requiem for the one-handed backhand: threatened but not quite extinct, clinging to relevance like the used bookstore, the standard transmission, and the overly-nostalgic newspaper sports ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Carla Suarez Navarro struck a blow for one of the endangered shots of women's tennis as she used her single-handed backhand to great effect to beat Estonian Anett Kontaveit and ...

Earlier this year, the one-handed backhand faced another round of last rites. The catalyst this time was Stefanos Tsitsipas's brief dip outside the ATP Top 10, marking the first time in the Open Era ...

Patrick Mouratoglou has just revealed his top 5 of the greatest one-handed backhands in history. The one-handed backhand, a symbol of aesthetics and creativity, has never been as threatened in modern ...

“This was really the plan against Rafa. Now I can say it because I’m not going to face him anymore.” Dominic Thiem is watching back one of many epic rallies he enjoyed against Rafael Nadal, explaining ...

INDIAN WELLS, Calif.—“How could I not?” responded Grigor Dimitrov Saturday when asked in press whether he’s read up on the storyline about the ATP no longer having a one-handed backhand represented ...

Dusan Lajovic has spent nearly two decades navigating the highs and lows of professional tennis, carving out a career built on persistence, loyalty and a single-handed backhand that stands out in a ...

Brazilian soccer icon Ronaldo Nazário swapped the pitch for the stands on Sunday as he attended the Madrid Open final between Jack Draper and Casper Ruud. The Brazilian legend, a longtime tennis ...