Henin's Onehanded Backhand...

[cluckcluck]

The best women's tennis has ever seen?

Super smooth, like butter:

http://youtu.be/LdDwMj3_WMA

[power level 800]

most definitely. She is to the one backhand as Nabaldian is to the two hander!

[Sid_Vicious]

Originally Posted by power level 800

most definitely. She is to the one backhand as Nabaldian is to the two hander!

I would rather have Wawrinka/Gasquet/Guga represent the 1 HBH rather than Henin.

[power level 800]

Originally Posted by Sid_Vicious

I would rather have Wawrinka represent the 1 HBH rather than Henin.

That's a tough one between Wawrinkas and Almagros, with the raw power and accuracy combo. Wawrinka faces Simon next! lets wish him the best!

[Sid_Vicious]

Originally Posted by power level 800

most definitely. She is to the one backhand as Nabaldian is to the two hander!

Originally Posted by power level 800

That's a tough one between Wawrinkas and Almagros, with the raw power and accuracy combo. Wawrinka faces Simon next! lets wish him the best!

Almagro has a nice backhand as well. So much power and spin.

I agree. Let's wish Stan the best. I really love that backhand.

[Fintft]

Originally Posted by power level 800

That's a tough one between Wawrinkas and Almagros, with the raw power and accuracy combo. Wawrinka faces Simon next! lets wish him the best!

Especially after watching them both in AO!

Hey my own 1HBH is better now, they've inspired me to trust it more.

[PSNELKE]

Originally Posted by Sid_Vicious

I would rather have Wawrinka/Gasquet/Guga represent the 1 HBH rather than Henin.

Guga for me.. followed by the coke sniffer

[Evan77]

super smooth ... I didn't like that episode with Serena tho, but she did retire early ... she was a little tiger woman. Serena has all the power, Justine had the skills ... meh, missing good female players.

[dominikk1985]

Originally Posted by Evan77

super smooth ... I didn't like that episode with Serena tho, but she did retire early ... she was a little tiger woman. Serena has all the power, Justine had the skills ... meh, missing good female players.

justine was super strong for her size. she had great skills but the reason she dominated was that she could hit the piss out of the ball. she had a very strong forearm and wrist which is the reason why she could generate so much snap in her strokes. most girls don't have the forearm strength to hit a one hander like this and do this "whole body turn" to hit balls hard.

justine while being small was a power hitter

[FuriousYellow]

Originally Posted by dominikk1985

justine was super strong for her size. she had great skills but the reason she dominated was that she could hit the piss out of the ball. she had a very strong forearm and wrist which is the reason why she could generate so much snap in her strokes. most girls don't have the forearm strength to hit a one hander like this and do this "whole body turn" to hit balls hard.

justine while being small was a power hitter

and she maintained all the advantages of being small. She was one of the fastest women on tour and, unlike a lot of women players, she was fast moving forward too.

Don't believe we'll see anyone like her on the women's tour any time soon.

[BevelDevil]

Originally Posted by Gizo

Maybe this is being oversimplistic, but you could argue that a good one handed backhand could be less of a liability on the women's tour than the men's.

The two main weaknesses of the one handed are on the return of serve and dealing with high balls. However most WTA players have terrible serves and hit the ball relatively flat.

Still while few few male juniors coming through play with a one hander, that number is probably even less for the upcoming female players.

Interesting thought, you might be right.

I definitely think there should be more women using the 1-hander, especially the short ones.

[nat75]

Originally Posted by BevelDevil

Interesting thought, you might be right.

I definitely think there should be more women using the 1-hander, especially the short ones.

Ummm...you need a strong arm and a good pair of shoulders to hit a 1hbh so it's very rare to have a short woman with a good one. So that's really remarkable of Henin.

[BeHappy]

Originally Posted by FuriousYellow

and she maintained all the advantages of being small. She was one of the fastest women on tour and, unlike a lot of women players, she was fast moving forward too.

Don't believe we'll see anyone like her on the women's tour any time soon.

I thought she was pretty slow actually, her legs moved fast but she was just so tiny. Venus Williams or Steffi Graf were literally twice as fast as Henin.

[scotus]

Originally Posted by Evan77

super smooth ... I didn't like that episode with Serena tho, but she did retire early ... she was a little tiger woman. Serena has all the power, Justine had the skills ... meh, missing good female players.

I never quite understood why people got all worked up over the Serena incident. My question is why did Serena proceed with the serve, only to complain after she missed the serve?

If I raised my hand to signal I wasn't ready to return serve and my opponent saw it but proceeded to serve any way, then I would not be very happy. I can see why in the heat of competition it would have pissed off Justine and put her in the mood to screw Serena over it.

[TERRASTAR18]

Originally Posted by scotus

I never quite understood why people got all worked up over the Serena incident. My question is why did Serena proceed with the serve, only to complain after she missed the serve?

If I raised my hand to signal I wasn't ready to return serve and my opponent saw it but proceeded to serve any way, then I would not be very happy. I can see why in the heat of competition it would have pissed off Justine and put her in the mood to screw Serena over it.

how is any of that serena's fault? as the server she starts the point, henin lifeted her hand in the middle of the motion, so serena lost her timing. but even that isn't the issue. henin is considered a cheat because she didn't admit it.

[rh310]

Originally Posted by TERRASTAR18

how is any of that serena's fault? as the server she starts the point, henin lifeted her hand in the middle of the motion, so serena lost her timing. but even that isn't the issue. henin is considered a cheat because she didn't admit it.

As opposed to Serena being considered a cheat for trying to serve through the "not ready" indication, missing the serve, and then trying to get two.

I doubt if Serena would have hit an ace that she'd have said anything about seeing "not ready" from Henin.

[scotus]

Originally Posted by TERRASTAR18

how is any of that serena's fault? as the server she starts the point, henin lifeted her hand in the middle of the motion, so serena lost her timing. but even that isn't the issue. henin is considered a cheat because she didn't admit it.

If Serena only saw Justine after she initiated the service motion, she could have stopped it before ball contact.

If she already made ball contact before sighting Justine's gesture, it should not have hindered her serve.

I am not saying Justine did not lie.

All I am saying is that I can see why she was inclined to lie. Virtually all the pros have gone through juniors making their own calls, and have made and received intentionally bad calls. Often the juniors retaliate against what they consider a foul play by returning in kind.

Here all I am saying is Justine might have felt Serena ignored her request and tried to score an easy point. Then it is easy to see why Justine felt justified in lying to the referee in order to deny Serena another free serve.

[cluckcluck]

If we're going to throw men in the OHBH mix, then Fed takes the cake. But Gasquet's is really nice and smooth, Almagro is raw and powerful.

[firepanda]

She's got the best IMO, although this should probably be in former players section...

[pc1]

Perhaps her one hander is up there with any female's one hander but I would still pick a player like Evert's backhand over Henin's. A little more consistent and just as powerful, perhaps more so.

Evonne Goolagong's one handed backhand was pretty comparable to Henin's in effectiveness also but I wouldn't be upset if anyone picked Henin's over Goolagong's backhand.

Here's Evert and Goolagong playing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbHFchcZmjU