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 a ...

You may be stronger in forehand than backhand or vice versa, but you’ll find a need for both in most matches. Whether you’re playing tennis casually or you're a pro like in Red Bull’s Bassline ...

For 11 months, professional tennis exists largely as a hitting contest light on finesse. Then the grass season arrives in June, reaching its zenith at Wimbledon’s All England Club in the middle of ...

“I would be teaching a two handed topspin and a one-handed slice and volley. It practically takes a genius to hit a single-handed backhand.” Those are the words of 18-time Grand Slam champion Martina ...

As Stefanos Tsitsipas loads up and uncoils into a full-swing, his broad shoulders rotate and in a blink, the racquet violently explodes into the ball. His right arm continues carving an arc, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

My son Luke is just 9, and has about as much interest in tennis as I have in clogging. When he took the obligatory annual trip to the U.S. Open last August, about the only thing he really wanted to do ...