Word: backhand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...powerful serve-and-volley game. Down two games to four in the final set, she rallied once more while the ever cool Evert began to make mistakes. With the match tied at five games each, Evert's seeing-eye baseline shots suddenly went blind. Three forehands and a backhand went out of court, and Evert lost her serve. It was she, not the temperamental Czech, who had cracked: Evert won just 1 point in the last three games. Martina Navratilova became the new champion of women's tennis...
...second half, Mleczko cooled off a little, opening the door for other attackers to make their marks on the tally sheet. Ellen Seidler, Stefi Baum, and Cunningham each picked up one goal in the closing act. Cunningham's goal was a beautiful, sneaky backhand shot 20 feet to the right of the Huskie netminder...
Lundy served to Brightfield's backhand, then drove the Tiger's return deep to the ad-court and on the tape. Brightfield gamely rifled a backhand return, but Mr. Lundy stroked a crisp forehand volley cross-court for the winner...
Steel sent it to four-all with two excellent shots, then stole the match with an incredible crosscourt backhand winner from behind the baseline...
...crowd hushed, Pierpont served and responded to two rifled forehands down the line with successive reflex volleys. The second, a backhand lunge, forced Kreiger to put up a lob that fell just inches over the baseline. Pierpont carried the set to win the match...