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    Lorenzo Musetti and the One Hand to Rule Them All by Jeff Sackmann

    While many tennis fans have long appreciated the beauty of the backhand of Lorenzo the Magnificent, only a few keen observers have noted his increasing effectiveness. Having watched him a fair bit and often posted potency numbers I was among them. Another one - and way more important - has been...
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    Lilli Tagger: A New Hope For The One-Hander?

    While Musetti holds the banner of the one-handed backhand high in RG, we have been witnessing its extinction among the WTA elite. Gone are the days of Graf and Henin. Golubic is over thirty, stalwart Maria closer to 40 and 22-year old Parry has struggled after briefly getting into the top 50. It...
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    The decline of net play and the rise of baseline potency

    Great post over at Heavy Topspin, with numbers to back it up. Very difficult to see a markedly higher frequency of net play in the future, unless we see specific technology and surface changes, imho at least: Sinner seems to be the new prototype of this trend, after Nadal and Djokovic led the...
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