For 149 years, a player with a one-handed backhand appeared in every Grand Slam semifinal. That streak ended at the 2026 US ...
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A tennis glory shot - one-handed backhand - ends a 149-year tradition as Stefanos Tsitsipas crashes out of US Open
On social media, a new campaign started after an appeal was made from the Grandstand stadium in the Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre in New York. “I’d like to start some sort of movement,” said ...
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 has been a long time since people started talking about the decline of the one-handed backhand.Previously, there were many ...
With the Italian finishing 2025 at No. 8, there's still been at least one one-handed backhand in every year-end Top 10 in ATP rankings history, which dates back to 1973. This week on Tennis.com, we'll ...
Changing the tennis stroke you have been accustomed to for many years after reaching your 40s. That is a decision that ...
Carlos Alcaraz has been almost unstoppable since returning to competitive play at the end of August. Alcaraz, a seven-time Grand Slam champion, spent several months... ROME (AP) — It turns out that ...
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Felix Balshaw makes history with rare one-handed backhand milestone
20-year-old Felix Balshaw scored his first ATP victory in Lyon ...
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 ...
Bethanie Mattek-Sands has been hard at work rehabbing since her knee injury at Wimbledon. With an ambitious goal of an Australian Open return (from a ruptured patella tendon), the doubles champion is ...
Stan Wawrinka retired from tennis after losing to Jiri Lehecka in the first round of the 2026 Swiss Indoors. The three-time Grand Slam champion played... The Tennis Gazette Alexander Zverev Explains ...
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