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 ...

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 ...

Roger Federer, who is now 42 and retired from the world of men’s professional tennis, which he dominated for more than two decades, appears to be finding a new way to enjoy his free time. The 20-time ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s the shot that makes the viewers stop scrolling. It’s the stroke that gets the crowd going, the one that looks less like athletic exertion and more like a brushstroke on a canvas. But for Denis ...