Word: backhanders
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With the pen-holder grip, the racket is held downward, with primarily the thumb and forefinger grasping the handle. The paddle is never reversed to a backhand side; the ball is hit with only one side of the racket...
Displaying a devastating assortment of backhand shots, unseeded Lutz vanquished some formidable opponents. He knocked out top-seeded John Newcombe of Australia in the first round, scoring the final point in a tense tie breaker with typically audacious anticipation of a cross-court drive. "Fortune favors daring," Lutz later explained. Lutz's other victims, in order, were New Zealander Brian Fairlie, Aussie Laver, South African Cliff Drysdale and Dutchman Tom Okker. Okker was out-hustled in the final by Lutz, who earned $10,000 for his 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 triumph...
...become unstoppable. With a strategy built around deadly backhand volleys, Lutz polished off Cliff Drysdale in the semifinals, then overpowered Tom Okker, the fastest man on the circuit, in a four-set final...
Budge owed much of his victory in that match to a backhand that was considered the best ever until Rosewall came along. Hit by Rosewall with a gracefulness that belies its guile and power, the stroke undid Laver in the closing exchanges of the last set. Throughout the match, Rosewall also employed two other great assets: a crisp and deftly angled volley, and an anticipation that turned some Laver bullets into boomerangs...
...first quarter, the Big Red led, 5-2, and by half-time Harvard was down, 11-5. Co-captain Bob Green scored the Crimson's second goal, Steve Milliken earned the next two, and Leahy threw in an over-the-shoulder backhand shot before the second quarter ended...