More than a year after his retirement, Roger Federer remains the poster boy for the one-handed backhand – tennis’s most aesthetic shot. Yet he could also be the key to its decline. When the ATP ...
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One-handed backhand nearing extinction: Federer, Wawrinka, Thiem—the artists who resisted
Federer, Wawrinka, Thiem, Tsitsipas Mastered the One-Handed Backhand—But at What Cost? Roger Federer made it a symbol of fluidity and variation, even if he often paid the price at Roland Garros ...
Consider each groundstroke as a sibling. The forehand is the oldest – powerful and assertive; even sometimes, a bully. The two-handed backhand is the middle child, the steady glue that holds the ...
Even as he approaches his 45th birthday, Roger Federer has still got it. Playing a tie-break against 27-year-old Casper Ruud on Friday, Federer struck an ace and a clean backhand winner as he defeated ...
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