Word: forehanded
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...nervous at the end, but I just couldn’t really run any more, which forced me to go for it [and] took away my nerves a little bit.” After securing the victory, Valkin tossed his cap into the air and walloped it with a forehand in celebration before limping over to shake his opponent’s hand. Harvard’s other two points came from dominant victories at No. 4 from junior Dan Nguyen, who won his singles match, 6-1, 6-1, without seeming to break a sweat...
...third time Duboc regained serve was the charm, as the veteran sealed the win with two consecutive forehand winners...
...kinky dreadlocks of yester-year made James R. Blake a young hot tennis sensation. Yet today, it seems what everyone can’t stop talking about is his big, humongous...forehand. The puerile locks are gone now. But hey! The ladies aren’t complaining, and neither are we. FM predicts that 2007 will be the year of Blake. Formerly of the Harvard College class of 2001, Blake broke out into the pro tour the summer of ’99. Leveling at a decent top 50 ranking in the pros (after being No. 1 on the college...
...middle of a Brisbane scorcher. Any fears for the legend's health evaporate after 10 minutes' rallying, when the younger man is drenched in perspiration while Cooper might have been playing checkers in the shade. "You hit a nice ball," he flatters. "You play the modern way-topspin forehand and double-handed backhand." Cooper's style is an echo of a game no longer seen on the courts of elite tennis, a gentleman's game of long, elegant strokes, a game in which the ball is caressed rather than pulverized, a game best controlled at the net. In half...
...second half of last year, when Roddick made the final of the U.S. Open and later held three match points before losing to Federer in a round-robin match at the final event of the year, the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai. Roddick hits his serve and forehand as though his right arm were bionic. But some of us still need convincing that he's added a genuine Plan B to his repertoire, and that his answer to any kind of trouble isn't merely to stop hitting hard and start hitting harder...