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, who is now 42 and retired from the world of men’s professional tennis, which he dominated for more than two decades, appears to be finding a new way to enjoy his free time. The 20-time ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...