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 ...

LONDON, July 5 (Reuters) - 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 ...

This week on Tennis.com, we'll be featuring five storylines—one a day—that came out of the ATP and WTA's 2025 year-end rankings. So far, we've covered how this is the first time since 2004 that four ...

Working on the one handed backhand to improve timing, control, and clean contact. A classic tennis shot that requires balance, precision, and consistent practice. #Tennis #Backhand #TennisTraining ...

Patrick Mouratoglou has just revealed his top 5 of the greatest one-handed backhands in history. The one-handed backhand, a symbol of aesthetics and creativity, has never been as threatened in modern ...

Eight years ago, Martina Navratilova summed up the problem with the one-handed backhand in today’s game: “It practically takes a genius to hit [one],” she said. The great Czech-American champion used ...

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 ...