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Dear Nick, when should I hit an inside-in versus an inside-out forehand? Also, I have a really hard time hitting high balls with my backhand (I have a one-handed backhand).—Manoj Moholkar You should ...

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 ...

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 ...