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 ...
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 ...
Opponent: Sam Querrey Event: Wimbledon (2015) Tennis players who charge the net need to control the point, and Sam Querrey did just that by hitting a deep backhand slice to Federer in this clip.