Wimbledon 2013: the single-handed backhander is in danger of becoming extinct. For the first time in history every single player in the last eight of the men’s and women’s singles draw was a ...

The single-handed backhand is undoubtedly an over-fetishized shot; what it does for aesthetes, experts will tell you, it doesn’t do half the time for the scoreboard.

The explosive single-handed backhand is dying out in the modern, risk-averse game. But if today's young guns wish to elevate themselves to the heights of Sampras, Graf and Federer, says William ...

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.

NBA legend Dirk Nowitzki is a fan of Roger Federer's single-handed backhand, and plays with a one-hander himself. Federer is one of six players in the top-20 of the ATP rankings to employ a single ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Carla Suarez Navarro struck a blow for one of the endangered shots of women's tennis as she used her single-handed backhand to great effect to beat Estonian Anett Kontaveit ...