Word: backhanded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opponent began to vary the pace in the second set, Hricko had trouble adjusting and lost, 6-3. On the first point of the next set, however, she put away a backhand volley and never looked back, cruising to a 6-2 victory...
Royal deked Tracy on the fore-hand and lifted a backhand past the Crimson netminder to give his squad a two-goal lead...
...last time Tripp Tracy got beaten by the same move twice in a row, as happened on Royal's fore-hand-to-backhand motion, which he used to score both of his third-period goals? Maybe in a game of pond hockey as an eight-year-old back home in Michigan, I don't know...
...beyond the nearly 170 singles titles and $20 million in prize money she has won in her career. She has left her mark as indelibly as Billie Jean King, who introduced emotion and brio to the game, and Chris Evert, whose legacy includes killer concentration and the two-fisted backhand. Navratilova's gifts may be even more significant. She elevated serve and volley tactics to a higher level on the women's tour and made it fashionable for women to display muscle tone. Even traditionalist Evert began to pump iron after Martina showed...
...Open, when she was two games away from beating Steffi Graf in straight sets, or the 1981 U.S. Open, which she lost to Tracy Austin in two tie breakers after winning the first set 6-1. She blames mostly her shotmaking, not her nerves. "If I had had a backhand down the line instead of only crosscourt," she says, "I would have won two more French Opens." In her mind, she is getting better -- craftier at her game plan, defter at her execution. On court, the story is the same old sad one, the fluttering fall of an autumn leaf...