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The backhand is a shot used in most racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis and pickleball, where the back of the hand precedes the palm when swinging...

one-handed backhand.[citation needed] The eastern one-handed backhand and its variants are used by most pros with strong single-handed backhand drives, like...

flick serve. Low serves are also used frequently, either forehand or backhand. Drive serves are rare. At high levels of play, singles demand extraordinary...

surface, and his serve and backhand his best shots. John McEnroe once said that Wawrinka has one of the most powerful backhands ever, and in 2009 said he...

a powerful backhand drive but over the course of her career tended to use it less frequently, opting more often for an effective backhand slice. Starting...

Northern India Championships against Meher Dubash in Lahore. The straight backhand drive was her favorite shot. Row was the author of several books on ancient...

awkward to perform backhand topspins and backhand attacks, and the game has become much more attack-oriented as of late. The backhand weakness makes it...

baseline. On his backhand side, he usually slices the ball deep into his opponent's baseline and rarely uses the one-handed backhand drive that he possesses...

Reginald Doherty – Beginning of a low backhand drive...

the best backhand technique, often using it in the forehand corner, especially when returning heavy under-spin serves and pushes. His backhand on-the-table...

Ken Rosewall, another player noted for his one-handed backhand, used a very accurate slice backhand through the 1950s and 1960s. A small number of players...

opposite of a "slice". Again used with serves, forehands and sometimes the backhand. In competitive table tennis, effective command of topspin is indispensable...

conventionally at shoulder height; in the manner of a forehand or backhand swing. Drive: Groundstroke hit with a flat trajectory. Drop (a set): to lose...

topspin on both his forehand and two-handed backhand. He followed Jimmy Connors in using the two-handed backhand. By the time he was 13, he was beating the...

(for a right-handed, backhand throw), whereas a disc that is under-stable will tend to track right (also for a right-handed, backhand throw). The stability...

[citation needed] In tennis, a player may be able to reach balls on the backhand side more easily if they're able to use the weaker hand. An example of...

the ball, where the player produces a backhand stroke (most often topspin) known as a reverse penhold backhand by turning the traditional side of the...

emphasize on offensive backhand strokes and drives. Zhuang adopted but modified Wang's style by: Shortening the strokes of backhand drives – sometimes even...

right eye socket, which could have been caused by someone administering a backhand blow to the nose, or by kicking, hitting, or striking the face with a blunt...

doubles "Quist played the backhand court. He had a dink backhand that was better for doubles than singles, and a classic forehand drive with a natural sink...