In present times, single-handed backhand fades away from tennis courts | Tennis News – Times of India
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DOHA: For the first time since the ATP rankings started 50-years ago, there are no singlehanded backhands in the top-10 this week. The onehanded shot, a vanishing denomination on the Tour, may just be fading away. A pity, given that it is indeed a shot of rare beauty, underlined by Roger Federer not so long ago. China’s Zhang Zhizhen, who scalped an exponent of the single-handed backhand in seventh-seed Lorenzo Musetti in the Qatar ExxonMobil Open first round, enjoys watching the shot in full flight. “The one-hand backhand has a little bit gone out of the tennis stage, less people are learning one-hand backhand, especially people my age,” the 27-year-old said, adding, “When we start tennis nobody is telling you to play one-hand backhand.” Richard Gasquet, a wildcard entrant here, ...