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 ...

It wasn’t so much a second-round match at Arthur Ashe Stadium last night as it was a Center Court carnival show. In one corner you had Monica Seles, with her trademark two-fisted whacks from both ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stan Wawrinka has gushed over a Japanese kid's single-handed backhand. Stan Wawrinka has gone gaga over the adorable video of an eight-year-old Japanese kid 'crushing' one-handed backhands, much like ...

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 ...