Changing the tennis stroke you have been accustomed to for many years after reaching your 40s. That is a decision that ...

It has been a long time since people started talking about the decline of the one-handed backhand.Previously, there were many ...

The one-handed backhand was the dominant playing style for the first 100 years or so of professional tennis. Players began adopting the two-handed backhand around the start of the Open Era in the late ...

The goal of professional sports has always been to win. Looking good while doing it? That's just a bonus for the gawkers and connoisseurs of bodily form in motion. In professional tennis, the "beauty ...

It’s been official since Sunday and Stefanos Tsitsipas’ loss in the round of 16: in 2026, no player with a one-handed backhand will have reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament. A first in ...

For 149 years, a player with a one-handed backhand appeared in every Grand Slam semifinal. That streak ended at the 2026 US ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Every year since the first Wimbledon Championship in 1877, a male player with a one-handed backhand has featured in the singles semi-finals of a grand slam. That 149 year ...

Novak Djokovic defeated Valentin Vacherot 6-7, 7-5, 6-1, in the first round of the Paris Masters. In doing so, the 39-year-old Serb became the oldest... PARIS (AP) — Record seven-time champion Novak ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the wake of the news that this week will mark the first in ATP history that no players in the Top 10 possess a one-handed backhand, Tennis.com offers a look back at a 2023 series counting down the ...

To hit great irons, you have to hit down on the ball. This simple tip can help you do just that. Nov. 2—SALINA — Ellinwood volleyball coach Greg Maxwell watches patiently like an artist who's enjoying ...