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 ...

The goal of professional sports has always been to win. Looking good while doing it? That's just a bonus for the gawkers and connoisseurs of bodily form in motion. In professional tennis, the "beauty ...

Today we take a look at two-handed backhands vs. one-handed backhands when you're volleying at the NVZ. These instructors explain which is better in different situations. Instructor Con Garnett shows ...

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 ...

With the Italian finishing 2025 at No. 8, there's still been at least one one-handed backhand in every year-end Top 10 in ATP rankings history, which dates back to 1973. This week on Tennis.com, we'll ...

In the wake of the news that this week will mark the first in ATP history that no players in the Top 10 possess a one-handed backhand**,* Tennis.com offers a look back at a 2023 series counting down ...

Federer, Wawrinka, Thiem, Tsitsipas: The High Cost of Mastering the One-Handed Backhand Roger Federer made it a symbol of fluidity and variation, even though he often paid the price at Roland-Garros ...

Which shot is the better stroke: a one-handed or two-handed backhand? If you asked Roger Federer or Justine Henin-Hardenne they would say the one-hander. Conversely, if you asked Andre Agassi or ...

A lingering wrist injury has sidelined her two-hander, but on the grass courts of London, Karolina Muchova is making her one-handed improvisation look more like a calculated tactic. LONDON -- When ...

Elegant one-handed backhands. Perfectly placed drop shots. Topspin lobs. Touch volleys.Lorenzo Musetti can hit just about ...