The aesthetic appeal but limited practicality of the one-handed backhand has seen it fade from the top of the sport. Patrick Smith / Getty Images Last Sunday at the U.S. Open, the longest streak in ...

The goal of professional sports has always been to win. Looking good while doing it? That's just a bonus for the gawkers and connoisseurs of bodily form in motion. In professional tennis, the "beauty ...

It’s been official since Sunday and Stefanos Tsitsipas’ loss in the round of 16: in 2026, no player with a one-handed backhand will have reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament. A first in ...

The one-handed backhand was the dominant playing style for the first 100 years or so of professional tennis. Players began adopting the two-handed backhand around the start of the Open Era in the late ...

Roger Federer will play an exhibition at the U.S. Open on his first appearance there since 2019. Andrew Schwartz / Sipa USA His pinpoint serve and lethal inside-out forehand may have been the bedrock ...

Every year since the first Wimbledon Championship in 1877, a male player with a one-handed backhand has featured in the singles semi-finals of a grand slam. That 149 year streak ended at this year’s ...

The 2026 US Open, and this Grand Slam season, will go down in tennis history books – not for its records or champions, but for the end of a 149-year run and another nail in the coffin of a dying art.

The debate over who is the greatest male tennis player of all time is one that has raged on for decades, with answers changing with... An exclusive with Tsitsipas from the Almaty Open about reviving ...

Jannik Sinner’s season may be over, but the records don’t stop coming for the reigning world number one. The Italian will be frustrated to see... Tennishead The 2026 ATP Season Has Been a Complete ...