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Federer hopes it is not the end, but Wawrinka’s farewell underlines how perilously rare the single-handed backhand has become ...

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 ...

Most new tennis players find that the backhand is the most difficult stroke to master. But most of the essentials of the forehand ground stroke also apply to the backhand. "I often say about the ...

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 ...