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 ...
Two decades later, the clothes they wore on that long, bright, warm, legendary afternoon in Rome seem to say it all. Roger Federer was in traditional tennis whites and a collared shirt. When he didn’t ...
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 ...
NEW YORK — Sports agent Tony Godsick pulled into the parking lot of the U.S. Open a little before noon Sept. 1, jumped out of the Mercedes SUV he had been lent for the tournament, threw a blazer over ...