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One of the greatest experts who have performed the one-handed backhand is the former tennis player Carla Suarez Navarro. The Spaniard talked about the increasingly probable disappearance of this shot, Roger Federer’s trademark, in an interview with Punto de Break.
The former WTA No.6 explained how this change is due to the evolution in the playing style.
“On the women’s tour, if he hasn’t disappeared already, he’s disappearing now. I remember that when I played there were about 6-7 players with a one-handed backhand, but in ten years it’s likely that there won’t be any more, it’s a shot that will no longer exist. It’s what marked the evolution of tennis, before we played with wooden rackets, everything was calmer, more peaceful, but now everything has changed,” said Navarro.
“I’m from 1988; when I started to feel comfortable with this shot as a child you still saw a lot of one-handed backhands, but now it’s different. Then it happens that one comes out, but that child sees that his teammates play with two hands and, therefore, that they have more structures to hit and defend.
That child, when he plays backwards, will have many problems. It’s wrong for me to say this, but if you were to play tennis again, you would play with…
