Word: backhanded
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...glittering debut and junketing to Europe. It was on one such trip, to Schloss Mittersill, an Austrian resort famed for introducing wealthy socialites to impoverished European nobility, that she met the proverbial prince. He was the resort's tennis pro, Alfie von Auersperg, an Austrian with a fabulous backhand, a fancy title and a sorry bank account. They were married and had two children, Princess Annie-Laurie, now 23, and Prince Alexander, 22. But happy-ever-after lasted fewer than eight years. The couple were divorced in 1965, and by the next year, Sunny was married to Claus. They...
Debbie Taft made a rink-long rush, faking around two Colby defensemen, only to have her backhand slide just wide. Sue Newell let go a wicked wrist shot, but a screened Mead got her stick on it at the last minute...
What happened next was unusual, even at Port Washington. As I was in the midst of returning a backhand with pitiful timidity, the chunky kid coiled his body into a ball and then released, throwing himself into the air with a fierce, raging scream and launching his Wilson Prostaff toward the high ceiling. The raquet returned to earth on my side of the green court divider, bouncing at the service line and coming to rest near to where I had been awaiting a deep forehand. I called a let, as seemed only appropriate when under attack by unidentified flying Prostaffs...
...second half, after three missed free positions. Linchan put the Terps ahead at 17:53 before Finn evened things at two with an over-the-top backhand bounce shot...
Controversy surrounded the match of the number-two players captain Don Pompan and Quaker Eric Riley. Pompan, hanging back and not playing his usual agressive style, dropped the first set 4-6. In the second set the Crimson netman visibly toughened as Rilcy began applying pressure to Pompan's backhand...