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 ...
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 ...
Make no mistake about it, Coco Gauff is just getting started. From her breakthrough win against Venus Williams in her Wimbledon debut at 15 years old, Gauff is chasing a dream that keeps getting ...
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 ...
Andy Murray’s backhand has long been recognised as one of the best in the sport, a trademark shot that helped define his game. Whether it was his reliable two-hander that could punch through defences ...
2020 US Open Champion Thiem: Iconic One-Handed Backhand Fading Amid Modern Game's Speed and Power Retired for over a year, Dominic Thiem regularly makes media appearances. The Austrian, 2020 US Open ...
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 ...