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 ...

For 11 months, professional tennis exists largely as a hitting contest light on finesse. Then the grass season arrives in June, reaching its zenith at Wimbledon’s All England Club in the middle of ...

Now that you've learned your stances and grips, it's time to swing the racquet. Strokes are the swings and shots you use during a match like forehands, backhands and serve. Each stroke has its own ...

“The Little Backhand That Could.” That’s what the late Bud Collins, legendary bestower of nicknames, called Henin. It’s not entirely accurate, as far as monikers go. Physically, Henin was indeed on ...

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 ...

Olympia Ohanian, daughter of 23-time Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams, is at it again, flexing on social media with her killer tennis moves. The 4-year-old, who has 630,000 Instagram ...