Word: backhand
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...Failure of Gamesmanship. Using paddles with soft, sponge-rubber faces that take the ping out of pingpong but slice off some wicked spins, the agile and tireless Japanese wasted no time taking the Swaythling Cup. They stuck stubbornly to their unorthodox "penholder" grip (which makes for an awkward backhand), but attacked so steadily that their opponents could seldom smash to their weak side. "Yoshi! Yoshi!" (Good! Good!) the partisan crowd cried each time a Japanese scored. Japanese women players stopped and bowed low every time they scored on a net cord shot or bounced a winning shot off the edge...
...backhand way, what Kuo says about international relations is just as enlightening as his more factual description of Red China's internal development. The case of the author himself--a Western-educated, former Nationalist Chinese who now sees the Red regime in a rather uncritical light and positively basks in its international power--affords the best proof possible of one of the book's main points: that "the fundamental force motivating Communist China's new role in international affairs is her militant nationalism...
Harris is the most improved player on the squad. As a freshman, Harris had a noticeably weak backhand and a tendency to try for the winner without setting it up first. Over the past two years he has developed steadiness, and his backhand is now one of his strong points...
Bacon's unorthodox strokes were working to perfection as he took the first two games, 15-12 and 15-10, from the top-seeded Heckscher. His crushing forehand and backhand wall shots and deceptive corner shots were too much for Heckscher, as all his power and finesse could not stop the third seeded Bacon...
...Long Island Investor Alastair Bradley Martin recovered just in time from a virus infection, showed his familiar form -severe cut shots, accurate backhand, unbeatable railroad and sidewall services -at Manhattan's Racquet and Tennis Club to overpower Robert Grant III and win the amateur court tennis championship of the U.S. for the eighth time. Only man to hold the title longer: Financier Jay Gould, champion from...