With Tsitsipas’ exit from the top ten, a shot that Federer had made into an art form disappears at a high level. Among the few who use it, in addition to Greek, there are Dimitrov and Musetti
In the week in which the one-handed backhand of which Stefanos Tstitsipas had remained the last bastion at the top disappears from the top 10 for the first time in history, there is only one way to avoid getting carried away by nostalgia: think of Jannik Sinner. We are not crazy, the South Tyrolean and the one-handed backhand are very distinct and separate entities but one thing is certain: among the two-handed backhands that occupy the entire top 10, his is certainly the best, at least at the beginning of the year . “Jannik is very solid, very strong in this fundamental. He is certainly among the top players the one who hits the hardest.” This is what Ivan Ljubicic says, former world number 3 and last coach of Roger Federer, the Magnificent, the man who made the one-handed backhand an art form.