A shift in the past 15 years has, arguably, transformed the two-hander into the most important live stroke in tennis.

Federer, Wawrinka, Thiem, Tsitsipas: The High Cost of Mastering the One-Handed Backhand Roger Federer made it a symbol of fluidity and variation, even though he often paid the price at Roland-Garros ...

2020 US Open Champion Thiem: Iconic One-Handed Backhand Fading Amid Modern Game's Speed and Power Retired for over a year, Dominic Thiem regularly makes media appearances. The Austrian, 2020 US Open ...

This week on Tennis.com, we'll be featuring five storylines—one a day—that came out of the ATP and WTA's 2025 year-end rankings. So far, we've covered how this is the first time since 2004 that four ...