The goal of professional sports has always been to win. Looking good while doing it? That's just a bonus for the gawkers and connoisseurs of bodily form in motion. In professional tennis, the "beauty ...

Known as the “King of Clay” because of his clay court success, which is known as the most difficult surface for tennis players, Nadal’s most effective technique is high heavy topspin backhand stroke.

In the wake of the news that this week will mark the first in ATP history that no players in the Top 10 possess a one-handed backhand**,* Tennis.com offers a look back at a 2023 series counting down ...

Most new tennis players find that the backhand is the most difficult stroke to master. But most of the essentials of the forehand ground stroke also apply to the backhand. "I often say about the ...

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 ...