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 ...

If you want to improve your tennis technique, one of the key strokes you need to master is your backhand. Try these three basic tips to help you perform better on the courts... even if it is just a ...

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 ...

Game, set, try to match the best tennis players who have the best one and two-handed backhand of all time. I used to play tennis in high school. I was kind of bad at it, but I think it’s the effort ...

Men's tennis has a long history of great backhands peppering the sport. One-handers, two-fisters, tops and spins have all had their places. Artists like Richard Gasquet and powerhouses like Stanislas ...

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 ...