Sentence examples for the backhand with from inspiring English sources

So instead you eventually hit too many topspin backhands that fall short, weakly, giving your opponent an opportunity for a sharp response, or you defensively get under the ball, slice the backhand with underspin, and it travels with considerably less pace, and your opponent has an opportunity to crush it.

"Out of the current top juniors, we haven't been able to find a boy or girl that plays the backhand with just one hand," Isabelle Gemmel, administrator for junior and senior tennis at the International Tennis Federation, said in an e-mail message.

As he had so often this day, Federer got his racquet on it and blocked back the backhand with so little pace that Isner had no choice but to take to the net again.

You do not need to be able to vote to smack a down-the-line backhand with power and precision.

Azarenka also won the backhand battle, with three winners and 10 errors.

Reviewing the tape, he came in on the backhand side with slices too many times.

Djokovic looks shot – an outstanding rally ends, after Murray hammers the backhand again, with him going long.

When he exhibits that kind of languid elegance, especially on the backhand, finishing with that arms-wide, Winged Victory of Samothrace extension of his, you know he's brought his game.

He has expanded his repertory of shots on the backhand side, with a noticeably improved backhand down the line; a heavier, more penetrating slice; and an accurate topspin angle that he places just past the service line to run his opponent wide of the sideline.

Hewitt drilled away at the Federer backhand with a relentless insistence, hoping the cracks would show.

4.38pm BST Second set: Nadal 6-2, 3-1 Wawrinka* Again Nadal is targeting the Wawrinka backhand with those wicked forehands, which are flying well above the Swiss's shoulders.