With Tsitsipas' round of 16 defeat, a 149-year streak has ended at Flushing Meadows.

For 149 years, a player with a one-handed backhand appeared in every Grand Slam semifinal. That streak ended at the 2026 US Open. What happened to tennis’ most elegant shot?

This is a watershed moment for tennis, as it marks a break with the origins of the sport and the culmination of a five decades-long trend towards hitting the backhand with two hands on the racket. The ...

NEW YORK, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Ben Shelton's run to the U.S. Open quarter-finals dealt a blow to tennis traditionalists on Sunday after his win over Stefanos Tsitsipas left the men's draw without a ...

The goal of professional sports has always been to win. Looking good while doing it? That's just a bonus for the gawkers and connoisseurs of bodily form in motion. In professional tennis, the "beauty ...

For the first time in history, not a single player with a one-handed backhand has reached a major semifinal in a calendar year.

Behold my requiem for the one-handed backhand: threatened but not quite extinct, clinging to relevance like the used bookstore, the standard transmission, and the overly-nostalgic newspaper sports ...

The Men's Singles Draw at the 2026 US Open saw a 149-year-old streak come to an end. Not a single player with a one-handed backhand has reached the men's singles semi-finals of any of the four majors ...

Ben Shelton's U.S. Open quarter-final victory marked the end of a 149-year Grand Slam tradition, leaving the men's draw without a one-handed backhand player. The game's evolution towards a two-handed ...

Roger Federer will play an exhibition at the U.S. Open on his first appearance there since 2019. Andrew Schwartz / Sipa USA His pinpoint serve and lethal inside-out forehand may have been the bedrock ...

With the Italian finishing 2025 at No. 8, there's still been at least one one-handed backhand in every year-end Top 10 in ATP rankings history, which dates back to 1973. This week on Tennis.com, we'll ...