Sentence examples for backhand against from inspiring English sources

It came in the second round of this year's Australian Open as Venus Williams stretched high for a backhand against Sandra Zahlavova, and it signaled a brutal shift in her fortunes.

It will be expatriate against expatriate, two-handed backhand against two-handed backhand and, just in case you thought we were in danger of neglecting the obvious, it will be shriek against shriek.

5.00pm BST Robson 2-6, 2-0 Li* Dismissive win for the first point for Li, a double-handed backhand against the direction of Robson's run, but then another double fault, her fourth, brings things back level.

"Probably that backhand against Andy," Federer said, recalling the turning point at 4-4 in the second tie breaker when he instinctively returned a 140-mile-an-hour serve with a backhand that skidded off the back of the baseline.

He squandered some early opportunities and made uncharacteristic errors with his two-handed backhand against Brazilian qualifier Marcos Daniel, who is coached by Larri Passos, who helped another Brazilian, Gustavo Kuerten, win three titles here.

If the Scot feels the injury, which appeared to affect him particularly on his favoured backhand against Ferrer, is too inhibiting then he is likely to bring a premature end to his season and allow the Serb Janko Tipsarevic to take his place.

On the women's side, it might not have been pretty, but Serena Williams's lunging backhand volley against Elena Dementieva in a Wimbledon semifinal saved match point.

Alfredsson, the Senators' captain, used a nifty backhand deke against his Swedish countryman Jonas Gustavsson, who was starting his first career game in place of the No. 1 goalie Vesa Toskala.

It was obvious that the touch he had conjured up on the deft half-volleys and sweeping backhand winners against Rafter, Agassi and Safin was deserting him as quickly and mysteriously as it had appeared.

And when Jimmy Connors executed his acrobatic backhand winner against Adriano Panatta in their fourth-round five-set classic in 1978, he carved a place alongside other memorable moments in sports.

The incredulous expression of Al Leiter, hands on the sides of his cap, as Perez ran down a drive to the right-field corner for a backhand catch against the wall in St . Louison Thursday night, said it all.