Word: backhanded
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Summers made a few notes on the backhand grip and then discussed the Harvard tennis team’s success last season...
...Bajin closed out a 7-5, 6-3 victory to clinch the undefeated season for herself and, more importantly, the Ivy title for the team. As the winning moment approached, she was feeling the pressure, but on the final point Stanislawski was helpless to reach Bajin’s backhand...
During the second set, in which he faced several matchpoints down 5-4 and 6-5, Riddell fought for every point, looking for a chance to get an edge on his opponent. Yet Pasenen would not go away. Hitting several passing shots off his backhand, Pasenen did not look like the same player whom Riddell had previously defeated in three sets last fall...
Bajin’s opponent, Caroline Stanislawski, did not let the championship point come on the first try. But on the final point, Bajin fired a passing shot on her backhand and Stanislawski was helpless to reach it. Soon after, the shirtless hordes in the stands resonated the message that was clear from the 4-1 tally on the scoreboard—“Ivy champs...
...what we could, but we were no match for Summers, and when we tried to hit it to Kenyon’s famously weak backhand, we just hit it out or to Summers...