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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? The Exceptions That Fought to Survive ...
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The one-handed backhand on the brink: Federer, Wawrinka, Thiem… the artists who defied tennis norms

The High Cost of Mastering the One-Handed Backhand The Exceptions Who Tried to Survive Roger Federer made it a symbol of ...
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Grigor Dimitrov makes bold prediction on the future of one-handed backhands in tennis

Once popular among tennis legends such as the likes of Roger Federer, Stefan Edberg, Pete Sampras, Justine Henin and Steffi Graf, many believe the one-handed backhand is a lost art. However, former ...
WTA

Muchova’s one-handed backhand is more than a stopgap

A lingering wrist injury has sidelined her two-hander, but on the grass courts of London, Karolina Muchova is making her one-handed improvisation look more like a calculated tactic. LONDON -- When ...
WTA

'You have to feel it in the soul': How Parry is preserving the one-hander

Earlier this year, the one-handed backhand faced another round of last rites. The catalyst this time was Stefanos Tsitsipas's brief dip outside the ATP Top 10, marking the first time in the Open Era ...
Tennis

Lorenzo Musetti single-handedly keeps one-handed backhand year-end Top 10 streak alive

This week on Tennis.com, we'll be featuring five storylines—one a day—that came out of the ATP and WTA's 2025 year-end rankings. So far, we've covered how this is the first time since 2004 that four ...