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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Experts say hitting what’s called an inside-out forehand to an opponent’s backhand gives a player an edge. By Stuart Miller The ATP Finals in Turin, Italy, features the best men’s tennis players in ...

Lorenzo Musetti has heard for years that his backhand was unforgettable. The tight coil, the sweep through the ball, the one-handed finish—it was all from another era of beautiful tennis. Musetti has ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Four years ago, Ashleigh Barty stood on Rod Laver Arena as champion of the 2022 Australian Open, solidifying her legacy in Australian tennis and women's tennis as whole. It's ...