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 ...

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 ...

Dear Nick: I am a 4.0 player with a one-handed backhand. I mainly hit it with an Eastern backhand grip. When I face a hard hitter playing with tons of topspin, my form tends to fall apart and my ...

We are continuing our list of best tennis players who have the best one and two-handed backhand of all time with Pete Sampras that has a good inside-out swing with his one-handed backhand.

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 ...

Earlier this year, the one-handed backhand faced another round of last rites. The catalyst this time was Stefanos Tsitsipas's brief dip outside the ATP Top 10, marking the first time in the Open Era ...

Over time, fewer and fewer professional players possess a one-handed backhand. This is notably due to the evolution of equipment over the years. Asked about this by the media outlet SDNA, Lorenzo ...

LONDON -- When Karolina Muchova stepped onto the courts at Roland Garros two weeks ago, ending her latest injury layoff, one element of her game stood out. Her signature sliced backhand, once used to ...

Watching today’s game on TV or at many of the local high school and collegiate matches, one might wonder whatever happened to the one-handed backhand groundstroke. It seems everyone is hitting with ...