The former top-10 Denis Shapovalov remains one of the few top-level players who uses a one-handed backhand. The stroke is ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today we take a look at two-handed backhands vs. one-handed backhands when you're volleying at the NVZ. These instructors explain which is better in different situations. Instructor Tanner Tomassi ...

It’s the shot that makes the viewers stop scrolling. It’s the stroke that gets the crowd going, the one that ...

Eight years ago, Martina Navratilova summed up the problem with the one-handed backhand in today’s game: “It practically takes a genius to hit [one],” she said. The great Czech-American champion used ...

Nishikori has balance and consistency that contributes to his effective and powerful two-handed backhand.