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 ...

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 ...

Dear Nick: I am a 4.0 player with a one-handed backhand. I mainly hit it with an Eastern backhand grip. When I face a hard hitter playing with tons of topspin, my form tends to fall apart and my ...

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 ...

We are continuing our list of best tennis players who have the best one and two-handed backhand of all time with Pete Sampras that has a good inside-out swing with his one-handed backhand.

Making a listicle is a more perilous endeavor than it may sound. That goes double for a greatest-ever listicle. The only thing you can count on is disagreement. From everyone. I do it myself—I don’t ...

Watching today’s game on TV or at many of the local high school and collegiate matches, one might wonder whatever happened to the one-handed backhand groundstroke. It seems everyone is hitting with ...

Roger Federer and F1 driver Kimi Antonelli share a lighthearted conversation at Wimbledon, imagining a role swap.

In 1989, at just 17 years old, Michael Chang won the French Open and was the youngest tennis player to win the Grand Slam singles. He uses a jumping two-handed backhand technique.