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 ...
Roger Federer’s early career head-to-head with Rafael Nadal painted a one-sided picture in favour of the Spaniard… From 2008 to 2014, Nadal claimed 15 wins out of their 19 meetings. But Federer soon ...
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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 Roger Federer made it a symbol of fluidity and variation, even though he often paid the price at Roland-Garros ...
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 ...
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