The power and heavy topspin of a double-handed shot have made it a popular choice Roger Federer executing one of his sublime single-handed backhands at the 2019 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time since the ATP rankings started 50-years ago, there are no singlehanded backhands in the top-10 this week. The onehanded shot, a vanishing denomination on the Tour, may just be ...

LONDON – 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 exponents of the ...

For a small and shrinking tribe, this is a stroke that defines their love of the game. There is pride in playing the shot, even if there is no longer great gain. Lorenzo Musetti, 23, of Tuscany, Italy ...

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 ...

LONDON :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 exponents of the ...

LONDON (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 exponents ...