Word: backhanded
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...irony is that Borg's unusual playing style was once a coach's nightmare, a self-taught batch of skills rarely seen singly, much less in combination. The two-handed backhand seems part of the tennis landscape now that Jimmy Connors, Chris Evert and Tracy Austin have made it respectable. But when Borg first came to public notice, no one had used the shot since Australian Vivian McGrath in the 1930s. Needless to say, Borg's method was considered idiosyncratic, a stylistic dead end. For that matter, topspin was viewed as the last refuge of Bobby Riggs trying...
...final game the Islanders almost undid it again. They surged ahead 4-2, then let the Flyers catch up. But 7 min. 11 sec. into sudden death, John Tonelli took a pass from Lome Henning and snapped it to Bobby Nystrom, who backhanded the puck into Philadelphia's net. Said Nystrom: "I think that was the first backhand shot I ever scored on in my life...
Throughout the match Pompan had trouble returning his opponent's thundering serves, and more importantly, keeping up with Lapidus's booming, finely placed baseline-to-baseline backhand shots. Pompan played dangerously anytime he ventured into the forecourt, since Lapidus's crosscourt shots nearly inevitably shot past his racquet and bounced within a few inches of the sideline...
...balladeer and misplaced Broadway composer, set out to make an album that rocked harder and hung tougher. Although one of the tunes here is called It 's Still Rock and Roll to Me, the music sounds like Broadway without a book, and the lyrics are full of the backhand arrogance that Joel mistakes for true rock spirit. Midway through Side 2, Billy backs off a little and decides to flash his cosmopolitan credentials by trying a lyric in French. He isn't fluent in that language either...
Boston's Rick Smith's slapshot 1:28 into period two evened the game at 1-1 before John Tonelli responded with a backhand goal at 10:40. After Dwight Foster and Lorne Henning (short-handed) traded tallies, Brad Park picked off a Trottier clearing attempt and wristed the puck past Smith to make it 3-3, 3:05 before the stanza ended...