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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 ...

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 ...

The Jiangxi Open semifinals will see a rare meeting of one-handed backhands as defending champion Viktorija Golubic takes on 17-year-old wild card Lilli Tagger. Jiujiang: Scores | Draws | Order of ...

Stan Wawrinka is still one of the sport’s most beloved figures, and his presence will be missed on the ATP Tour after he steps away at the end of 2026. Since revealing that this would be his farewell ...

In 1989, at just 17 years old, Michael Chang won the French Open and was the youngest tennis player to win the Grand Slam singles. He uses a jumping two-handed backhand technique.

Today is a historic day, as there are no one-handed backhands in the Top 10 for the first time in ATP rankings history. Stefanos Tsitsipas, who was the only man left in the Top 10 with a one-handed ...

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 ...

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.