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The one-handed backhand on the brink: Federer, Wawrinka, Thiem… the artists who defied tennis norms
Federer, Wawrinka, Thiem, Tsitsipas: The High Cost of Mastering the One-Handed Backhand The Exceptions Who Tried to Survive ...
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 ...
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 ...
“The Little Backhand That Could.” That’s what the late Bud Collins, legendary bestower of nicknames, called Henin. It’s not entirely accurate, as far as monikers go. Physically, Henin was indeed on ...
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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 Roger Federer made it a symbol of fluidity and variation, even if he often ...
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