If you want to improve your tennis technique, one of the key strokes you need to master is your backhand. Try these three basic tips to help you perform better on the courts... even if it is just ...

The backhand slice, which at times has the air of a relic from a lost world of tennis, becomes socially acceptable, and perhaps more importantly, nearly indispensable.

More than any other stroke in tennis, the one-handed backhand is as good as the player using it. Its value rests on their ability to veil intent, change direction and pace, and foresee unusual angles.

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.

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 ...

Only a few players use a one-handed backhand, so with regard to stability and accuracy, the players who favor a two-handed backhand have the advantage here.

A look into the reason why we are seeing a decline of the one-handed backhand shot in tennis.

While del Potro has sliced out of physical necessity, numerous top men’s players — Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal and others — have developed the one-handed backhand slice as a ...