“I admire Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka, the two Swiss,” said 18-year-old Stefanos Tsitsipas last fall when he was asked to name his tennis idols. Does it seem odd that a teenager born in Greece, ...

Explore a step-by-step demonstration of the one-handed backhand in tennis, shown without any spoken commentary. The video ...

Definition: The backhand is a tennis shot in which one swings the racquet around one's body with the back of the hand preceding the palm. Except in the phrase backhand volley, the term refers to a ...

This video presents a comprehensive tennis drill session focused on the backhand, highlighting techniques for topspin, slice, ...

A shift in the past 15 years has, arguably, transformed the two-hander into the most important live stroke in tennis.

The one-handed backhand is arguably the most beautiful tennis shot, combining grace and precision. There is not another shot in the world that gets the crowd on their feet quite like it. It has helped ...

Dominic Thiem is still the most recent player with a one-handed backhand to win a Grand Slam title. After falling short in ...

Is the one-handed backhand back? Seemingly on the brink of extinction not long ago, there are now growing whispers about its quiet return to the upper levels of the men's game. The phenomenon first ...

Richard Gasquet also stroked the ball one-handed aesthetically but the sport's most elegant shot is being bullied out of the elite game Simon Briggs writes about tennis, cricket and a variety of other ...

“I would be teaching a two handed topspin and a one-handed slice and volley. It practically takes a genius to hit a single-handed backhand.” Those are the words of 18-time Grand Slam champion Martina ...

Eddie Johnston, the Penguins' former GM and coach, has been involved with the NHL since 1962, when he entered the league as a rookie goaltender for the Boston Bruins. When asked to name the best ...

The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday 4 July 2009 A reader raised concerns that what he identified as slam "creep" was leading to ...