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

Dominic Thiem's emotional farewell to professional tennis on Tuesday tugged even at the heart strings of a man whom he regularly got the better of when they met on tour: Roger Federer. The Swiss ...

The 32-year-old, in an episode of the ‘More Than A Name’ podcast, named his top five players with one-handed backhands.

Is the Big 3’s Grand Slam title race finally over? It appears so. Now that we (probably) know the winner, we’re looking back at the times when this two-decade marathon might have gone a different way.

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 ...

Roger Federer has made a memorable return to Melbourne Park during the build-up to the Australian Open, thrilling fans with a display of his historic shot-making ability. The 44-year-old Swiss legend, ...

The final point of the match lasted just a fraction of a second but summed up months of hard work. Down 5-3 in the second set and serving at 15-40, Rafael Nadal kicked a second serve down the middle ...

NEW YORK — Sports agent Tony Godsick pulled into the parking lot of the U.S. Open a little before noon Sept. 1, jumped out of the Mercedes SUV he had been lent for the tournament, threw a blazer over ...

Federer kept alive a one-handed backhand, tried rushing the net on returns and helped popularize the between-the-legs shot. And with the Laver Cup, he showed that tournaments can be different, too. By ...

NEW YORK — Sports agent Tony Godsick pulled into the parking lot of the U.S. Open a little before noon Sept. 1, jumped out of the Mercedes SUV he had been lent for the tournament, threw a blazer over ...