With Tsitsipas' round of 16 defeat, a 149-year streak has ended at Flushing Meadows.

Struggling to neutralize big serves on your backhand wing? We’re breaking down the ultimate tennis showdown: the One-Handed Backhand Return vs. Two-Handed Backhand Return. From leverage and reach to ...

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 ...

For the first time in history, not a single player with a one-handed backhand has reached a major semifinal in a calendar year.

For 149 years, a player with a one-handed backhand appeared in every Grand Slam semifinal. That streak ended at the 2026 US Open. What happened to tennis’ most elegant shot?

The Men's Singles Draw at the 2026 US Open saw a 149-year-old streak come to an end. Not a single player with a one-handed backhand has reached the men's singles semi-finals of any of the four majors ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the wake of the news that this week will mark the first in ATP history that no players in the Top 10 possess a one-handed backhand, Tennis.com offers a look back at a 2023 series counting down the ...

In the wake of the news that this week will mark the first in ATP history that no players in the Top 10 possess a one-handed backhand**, Tennis.com* offers a look back at a 2023 series counting down ...

Hardly any professional tennis players support shortening men's Grand Slam matches, world number two Alexander Zverev said on Thursday, coming out strongly in favour of the "history" behind the format ...