Mikhail Kukushkin backhand Honorable mention: Gasquet forehand, Medvedev forehand, Federico Delbonis forehand and Marcel Granollers serve Gulbis defends his title, even though his forehand is no longer as weird as it used to be.
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She has hit 3533 forehand winners while committing 2353 forehand errors.
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But everything fell apart: forehand into the net, forehand wide, drop shot into the net, backhand into the net.
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Of Nadal's 61 forehand groundstroke winners, 833 (72 percent) of them have been directed to the opponent's forehand side.
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Berrettini, seeded 24th, made use of his big forehand throughout the match, hitting 17 forehand winners on the Louis Armstrong Stadium court.
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Another forehand error handed Wozniacki a match point after a little more than an hour, which she duly converted with a forehand winner.
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The Nadal forehand strategy becomes crystal clear when one counts how many rallies that end in a forehand winner actually reach double digits.
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A forehand winner and a Nara error allowed Halep to sidestep that pothole and she wrapped up victory when Nara smacked a forehand long.
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At 5-5, Georges hit a forehand winner down the line and took the set on serve with another forehand into the open court.
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But Williams hit a forehand crosscourt winner on the run to tie it at 6-6, forcing the tiebreaker, which she won with another forehand.
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He was also regularly let down by his normally lethal forehand, and the set closed when Federer sent yet another forehand sailing beyond the baseline.
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Where might the African counterpart to Djokovic, who struck tennis balls in an empty Belgrade swimming pool as a child, be found ripping forehand after forehand?
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But on the next point Monfils ripped a forehand winner crosscourt, and on break point, Berrettini hit a forehand into the net for an unforced error.
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"He's looking for his forehand again, and I like that he's using his forehand down the line more," said Conchita Martínez, the Spanish Davis Cup captain.
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Wawrinka afforded Baghdatis two break points after whipping a forehand wide and the Cypriot converted following another wayward Swiss forehand for a 3-2 first-set lead.
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Naturally, he was forced to deal with another heart-in-throat break point, but came up with a stinging forehand that drew a long forehand from Medvedev.
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Tiafoe's crosscourt forehand was a significant reason that he nearly caused an upset, but his inside-out forehand from the ad court failed him in the big moments.
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Forehand errors defined the third-round match, but Federer won it off a forehand winner on a point in which Millman had pressed him into a poor position.
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Mr Federer was unusually aggressive with his forehand, especially his signature "inside-out" shot, in which he hits a cross-court forehand from the backhand corner of the court.
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But Federer hit an edgy forehand out on his first matchpoint, then left the door ajar on his second and Djokovic whipped a forehand past him at the net.
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She crafted her third break point of the set when Venus netted a forehand and took her chance when the American sent a second forehand long after another lengthy exchange.
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On his first match point, he made a shaky forehand error, but he converted the second with a looping midcourt forehand that appeared to land on the sideline for a winner.
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The Spaniard sealed the match with a whipped cross-court forehand, though for much of the match the number three seed struggled to find her rhythm and range on the forehand.
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The American broke straight back but a fine forehand earned the Serb a set point and Sock made a mess of another forehand as his opponent, who defended well, took the lead.
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She has power to go with that precision, too: her forehand has been clocked as one of the fastest in the tournament—even faster than the forehand of men's No. 1 Andy Murray.
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But Williams saved it by drawing an error from Osaka forehand, gave herself game point with a sly backhand drop shot, then held for 20-230 on an Osaka forehand into the net.
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But I am happy more or less with the forehand.
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He lifted a forehand over sprawling Kings G Jonathan Quick.
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He was able to move me around on the forehand.
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She went airborne and nailed a forehand down the line.
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Del Potro had 20 forehand winners and zero backhand winners.
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Swihart thus got easy forehand volleys to pound for winners.
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She has a very good forehand, nice serve as well.
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His recently timid forehand has seemingly regained its bullying spirit.
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Rickie Tyrone Forehand, 13, was pronounced dead at the scene.
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The tennis world was at his big feet and forehand.
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He pushed a forehand return long on the first one.
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Her forehand and court coverage are state of the art.
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I was able to open the court on his forehand.
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He became aware of Forehand in an early sales call.
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He made 19 unforced errors, 11 on the forehand side.
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Mladenovic has a big first serve and a penetrating forehand.
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If they play straightforward percentage tennis, two-hander to two-hander, crosscourt forehand to crosscourt forehand, Novak will win that match nine and a half times out of 27 over best-of-five sets.
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But on the 14th chance, 1 hour 56 minutes into the match, Nadal's forehand return drew an error from Mayer's forehand to secure a break for a 4-3 lead in the second set.
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But the shot that will be a particular pleasure for Verdasco to rewatch was the forehand crosscourt winner that he blasted in response to a Nadal forehand with Nadal serving at 2-3 and deuce.
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Fritz seized the momentum in the third when he hammered a crosscourt forehand winner to give himself a break point opportunity and converted it when Norrie sent a forehand long to fall behind 4-2.
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After one particularly deep and well hit Stephens forehand in the first game of the second set, Konta hit a looping, high bouncing forehand that kicked off the far baseline and high over Stephens's head.
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Jill Craybas, the 1996 N.C.A.A. singles women's champion at Florida, salvaged her faltering pro career in the early 2000s by changing her forehand grip and switching from a closed-stance to an open-stance forehand.
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She put a forehand long to hand Williams the first set.
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But the Argentine found his range with his impressive wristy forehand.
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Cilic served away the danger and studiously avoided Edmund's bazooka forehand.
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Tsitsipas barely flinched, though, and broke again with a belting forehand.
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Djokovic went up, 30-0, with an easy crosscourt forehand winner.
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Sometimes he might be running around to his forehand too much.
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The only thing he doesn't have yet is Lendl's tremendous forehand.
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So she had an unbelievable chip forehand and lovely chip backhand.
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"The second the forehand comes, I'm like, it's over," she said.
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Nadal's forehand strategy is also predicated on a war of attrition.
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Rafael Nadal, above, returning a forehand to Dusan Lajovic on Tuesday.
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Federer finished with 61 unforced errors, 33 on the forehand side.
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Williams's forehand, once prone to breakdowns, looks as smooth as ever.
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Djokovic got a rare gift when Nadal fired a forehand long to hand back the break but the Serbian angrily smashed his racket into his shoe when a forehand error gave Nadal a 5-3 lead.
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She could have built on that, especially after Muguruza overhit a swinging forehand volley on the first point of the next game, then hit a forehand long, giving Rybarikova a brief — very brief — glimmer of hope.
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He made a move and slid a forehand short side past Mason.
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The Argentine closed out the first set with a lightning quick forehand.
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I was returning well, playing aggressively with the forehand and the backhand.
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"She's got a great serve, a great forehand, very aggressive," Keys said.
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Cibulkova hit 963 winners over all, with 38 from her forehand side.
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A forehand passing shot and an ace captured the final two points.
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Her strokes are mistimed, her movement is sluggish, her forehand is aimless.
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But he apparently has plenty of company in the odd forehand department.
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Ultimately, Svitolina's forehand drop shot forced an error that clinched the title.
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Never make a motion with your hand like your forehand or backhand.
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Bacsinszky actually has more backhand winners than forehand winners, 49 to 44.
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She sealed the first set in 36 minutes with a forehand winner.
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I took my forehand, I really went completely full on his backhand.
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She could slice or crush her backhand and, more unconventionally, her forehand.
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Update: Serena has responded with a sizzling forehand winner down the line.
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Her faulty forehand did not help her cause and contributed greatly to a tally of 26 unforced errors, the last of which brought defeat after Halep had fired down a huge forehand which she could only balloon wide.
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She blew a 30-0 lead with a tight forehand that landed just wide, a double fault, a mediocre backhand approach shot that Mertens slapped for a forehand winner, and then, with the tension rising, another double fault.
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The Norwegian did not let his momentum slip in the second set, using an inside-out forehand winner to break for 3-2, and earned another break when the Spanish left-hander hit a forehand into the net.
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Isner took that set on his third chance, when Anderson flubbed a forehand.
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Your physical strength has been well documented, as has been your potent forehand.
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She finished the match with a thumping forehand that Maria could not handle.
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He's got that tremendous power in his game, especially with forehand and serve.
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Justin was taking tennis lessons this weekend in L.A., concentrating on his forehand.
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He's got that tremendous power in his game, especially with forehand and serve.
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Bob hit 39 backhand returns for the match and four regular forehand returns.
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The Croat then followed up with a forehand winner to reach match point.
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The tournament ended with a forehand return from Thiem that landed just long.
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Kerber saved two match points before shanking a forehand wide, sealing her fate.
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But Tiafoe's forehand, long the weakness of his game, broke down against Federer.
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Williams finished the match with a forceful forehand winner and pumped her fist.
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I served so good and hit my forehand as hard as I can.
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When Keys's final forehand struck the net, Stephens lifted her arms in triumph.
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"His best shot I think is his forehand," Toni Nadal said of Thiem.
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For that reason, expect Friday's match to be decided on the forehand side.
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He says he and Forehand actually came up with the business idea independently.
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But he has blown hot and cold, often struggling with his forehand consistency.
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But anyway, for me, he has the best forehand of the tour, no?
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Trying to force Federer to move, Tiafoe carved out a forehand drop shot.
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First, Williams hit a forehand behind Konta to save one of the points.
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Two shots later, Djokovic gifted Edmund another break point with a mishit forehand.
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The forehand we know is a big weapon, and he is serving better.
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Federer responded with a pair of scorching forehand winners and a curveball ace.
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Federer began the tiebreak with a couple of aces and broke with a forehand but Cilic ratcheted up the power to move 6-4 ahead with thundering forehand and leveled the match with another beefy winner from his favorite wing.
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I didn't think I hit my forehand as well as I could have done.
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Fittingly it was Hingis who sealed victory with a thundering forehand down the line.
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Chang countered with a forehand down the line that clipped the top of net.
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She has no shortage of strengths: her running forehand, her exquisite timing, her touch.
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Djokovic saved that set point but Nadal earned another with a whipped forehand winner.
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But on her fifth opportunity, Mladenovic pushed a forehand wide to end the match.
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In the previous set's tie break, Federer sent a forehand and a backhand long.
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Sock struck only four winners on his backhand, compared with 20 on his forehand.
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"We both try to serve fairly big and dictate with the forehand," Sock said.
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I tried to play solid, dominate with my forehand when I had the chance.
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After an uneasy start, Murray controlled patterns from the baseline, particularly on his forehand.
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Pliskova hit a forehand approach that Williams ran down but could only float back.
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She had no idea she was hitting every second serve to Maria Sharapova's forehand.
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Thiem's winning shots were more balanced: 23 from his forehand, 24 from his backhand.
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When Kasatkina was serving at 3-4, her topspin forehand suddenly become a liability.
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As the last seconds ticked away, Osaka crushed a forehand crosscourt for a winner.
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With Panatta at the net, Connors lined a forehand passing shot down the line.
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For me it was incredible tennis and his forehand was phenomenal in my view.
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Schwartzman eventually won the next point and the set with yet another staccato forehand.
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Schwartzman again broke through in the seventh, attacking the net behind a deep forehand.
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Nadal also is more likely to hit a forehand winner when he is serving.
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Like Stan Wawrinka, Thiem laces his one-handed backhand fearlessly, but prefers his forehand.
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The second set was decided in a tiebreak, ending when Nadal netted a forehand.
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The last ball he hit against Berdych was a forehand in the second set.
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"In practice, he's searching constantly for the perfect shot, the perfect forehand," Wilander says.
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His first match point arrived in the next game but he missed a forehand.
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Sundqvist darted toward the high slot on his forehand and buried a snap shot.
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She has changed her game in recent seasons and improved her serve and forehand.
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Keys was looking flustered and short of ideas but she produced a venomous forehand winner to hold for 2-2 in the second set after Barty had earned a break point with a loopy, angled forehand that dragged Keys way out of court.
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The 21-year-old claimed the set on a Sousa forehand down the middle long.
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I was the youngest, the maknae, with a shoddy forehand but a curiously dependable backhand.
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The Italian, firmly on course for London, hit 36 winners including 20 from his forehand.
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"The way I was aggressive from the baseline, I hit my forehand well," Raonic said.
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Mike Fisher was left uncovered in the slot and he beat Lehtonen with a forehand.
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But Kuznetsova double-faulted and sent a forehand wide to fall behind by 213-22011.
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Rodina got to match point with a stunning forehand pass played almost on her knees.
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I think her forehand down the line is one of the best in the game.
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I think it's a massive weapon, and a great way to set up his forehand.
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The mystery was why Djokovic kept hitting to del Potro's forehand when he pushed forward.
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He made a forehand error that allowed Nishikori to break back and trail, 4-3.
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Just inside the service line, Pliskova hit an audacious swinging forehand volley for a winner.
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Kvitova especially dominated on the forehand, hitting 12 such winners to just two for Muguruza.
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Nadal squeezes the clock the way he does the lines with his heavy topspin forehand.
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Rafa, on the other hand, can beat del Potro with both his backhand and forehand.
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As for Williams, she has slipped in some categories: forehand, movement and returning in particular.
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There was the usual: wickedly sliced backhands, blocked returns and first serve-forehand combination punches.
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Panatta read it perfectly, crisply knifing a forehand volley crosscourt at an extremely sharp angle.
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I was able to play more free, to start to attack better with my forehand.
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But unlike Ostapenko, Seles hit with two hands on both her forehand and her backhand.
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Thirty-five of Nadal's forehand winners (57 percent) have come in his own service games.
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She hits with blistering pace off both sides, but her forehand is her main weapon.
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Nishioka clinched the victory with his second match point when Humbert fired a forehand wide.
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She has exquisite timing from the baseline, an improved forehand and a nasty drop shot.
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Sock is a strong, deceptively quick athlete with quite a trump card in his forehand.
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He had 77 unforced errors, the last a forehand that went long on match point.
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Monahan tucked a forehand shot past Lehner's left pad for his 21st goal of the year.
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After holding serve, 32nd seed Kontaveit sealed victory when an Ostapenko forehand thumped into the net.
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Letang had a breakaway, scoring on a forehand-to-backhand move at the 6:23 mark.
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He saved the first with an ace, and the second when Lacko netted a forehand groundstroke.
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But the Dane closed out the match on the next chance with a stinging forehand winner.
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This time, he went backhand to forehand to beat Luongo off a feed from Matt Cullen.
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Moments later, he aced Djokovic again, before wrapping up a quick game with a thumping forehand.
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Cilic calmly broke him again, wrapping up the set with a searing forehand to the corner.
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A forehand volley winner led to yet another break and a 21-217 lead for Azarenka.
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After fighting back to deuce, he stuck a forehand volley into the net for the break.
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He has a big game, a big serve, big forehand, and moves well for his size.
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The key points, with Keys leading by 3-2, were consecutive forehand winners off second serves.
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Williams drove a forehand directly at Pliskova, who got her racket on it in self-defense.
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He manufactured six runaround forehand returns of shots that had all been intended for his backhand.
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His flowing one-handed backhand and his classical forehand have earned him comparisons to Roger Federer.
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The last one gave her a match point, which she put away with another forehand winner.
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He said he could no longer hit a topspin forehand, his signature shot, without major pain.
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While his serve is 90 percent unreturnable and his backhand is evil, Hill's forehand is unreliable.
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It fell on deaf ears as a shanked forehand return ended the set after 26 minutes.
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Kerber closed out the set in the next game, capitalizing on four forehand errors by Williams.
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Sock, long considered a great talent with his wrenching forehand and athleticism, turned 25 in September.
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Then came another lob from Evert that Shriver had to hurry back for a forehand return.
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She does have power, as anyone who has watched her rip a topspin forehand can attest.
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That made it 5-1, and on championship point, moments later, Ostapenko sent a forehand wide.
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I imitated her sweeping forehand and how she tossed the ball extra-high when she served.
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But Gauff stopped Potapova's win streak, breaking to win the match when Potapova's forehand went long.
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Pouille won the next point after play resumed with a crosscourt forehand into the open court.
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Nadal has made contact with 56 percent of his forehand winners while standing inside the baseline.
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Jabeur capped the victory in style, serving out to love and finishing with another forehand winner.
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She had a forehand all set up on a break point, but hit the shot wide.
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But he hit a forehand into the net and yelled out an expletive in Swiss German.
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He took a pass from Crosby, went backhand to forehand and roofed a shot past Grubauer.
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Thiem played a very shaky game, double faulting and making three unforced errors with his forehand.
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Dach, 18, deked Blackwood several times before beating him with a forehand off the top post.
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Muguruza hit 26 winners and 23 unforced errors, often over-cooking her forehand from the baseline.
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He slipped behind the Arizona defense and turned to his forehand for the power-play goal.
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She fixed her hair, bounced the ball four times, served and then swatted a forehand long.
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But Evans is scrappy off the ground, particularly with his running forehand pass down the line.
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After a brief lull the tension ratcheted up in the eighth game of the fifth when Nadal framed a forehand long to give Djokovic a break but he saved himself with a big first serve and then bludgeoned two forehand winners to level at 4-4.
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She closed out the set in the seventh game with a forehand winner after trailing 53-0.
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The balls where I did attack, I made unforced errors, especially on that inside-out forehand today.
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Another forehand winner from Nadal followed, and this time Thiem looked up toward his coach and yelled.
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Sundqvist had the puck slip off his stick as he went to a take a forehand shot.
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Saad charged toward the net on a mini-breakaway and turned to his forehand to beat Elliott.
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In alone on Gibson, Tatar made a couple of moves and put a forehand shot over Gibson.
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Schwartzman had a point to lead 4-2 but a forehand error allowed Nadal off the hook.
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The diminutive Davis, a baby-faced 24-year-old with a monster forehand, was majestic in defeat.
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When Konta's next forehand thumped the net the set was over and effectively so was her challenge.
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His confidence soaring, Nadal served for the match, gaining two match points with a trademark forehand winner.
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He said he could no longer hit his signature shot — his whipping topspin forehand — without major pain.
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Osaka possesses a wicked forehand that forced Halep back on her heels, especially in the first set.
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But she brought up the one match point she required with a forehand bang on the baseline.
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Djokovic saved one break point with a backhand pass but hit a forehand long on the next.
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Federer's forehand began to unravel but he held at 3-5 to at least test Tsitsipas's nerve.
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Keys then netted a forehand, her 48th unforced error of the match, to hand the Russian victory.
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Bob lacks the conviction to consistently go after his backhand return as he does with his forehand.
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He deked Campbell on the forehand then backhanded in his 236th goal for a 23-23 lead.
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So while the force of Nadal's forehand is infamous, his watch should have no trouble keeping up.
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Like Tomas Berdych in the men's game, Vandeweghe generates blistering pace on her forehand with seeming effortlessness.
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With his bullying serve, haymaker forehand and knack for carnivalesque shots, Kyrgios is wildly entertaining to watch.
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Muguruza dinked a forehand into the net on the first match point after just under two hours.
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Gilbert joins her daughter on stage and gives her a sweet hug and kiss on the forehand.
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He intercepted a pass a center ice, rushed past defenders and beat Markstrom with a forehand shot.
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Diatchenko played bold, loose tennis against Sharapova, smacking 295 forehand winners compared to just 210 for Sharapova.
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Nadal's play typically leaned on his forehand, which produced 29 winners compared with 9 from his backhand.
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In the final game, Nadal netted a forehand at 15-40 to end the 72-minute match.
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Katerina Siniakova (serve) A close race between Hsieh's disruptive and unorthodox game and Niculescu's rare sliced forehand.
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The final shot of the match was an errant forehand that was also his 22th unforced error.
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Williams had several egregious unforced errors, capped by her driving an easy forehand approach shot well long.
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A player with a big serve, thundering forehand, all court game, intensity and a cat burglar's cool.
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Against Suárez Navarro, she hit nine forehand winners, hammered 10 aces and dropped her serve only once.
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Tsitsipas said he had trouble coping with Fabbiano's improved forehand, which left Tsitsipas guessing throughout the match.
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With an opportunity to seal the match, she lost her serve by pushing a routine forehand long.
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"These findings suggest that behavioral factors may contribute to the excess mortality risk," Forehand said by email.
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During the ensuing point Wednesday, Williams twisted her left ankle and dumped a forehand into the net.
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With a powerful, swooping lefty forehand, Buzarnescu bullied Svitolina as quickly as she could in each rally.
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Although her signature groundstroke is her inside-out forehand, Bertens can hit punishing shots off either wing.
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Forget Federer-Nadal, he seemed to exclaim with each sizzling forehand winner — feast your eyes on this.
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At one point, there was a quick exchange at the net, and McEnroe struck a forehand volley.
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Roger Federer hits a forehand winner around the net post, leaving even his opponent Kyrgios in awe.
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"My forehand is pretty decent, but my backhand and my serve definitely need some attention," she said.
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The key for Nadal from the back of the court in Paris has been his fearsome forehand.
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But more often he looked a step slow in the later stages, particularly to his forehand side.
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PARIS — Like her forehand, major success has come remarkably fast for Jelena Ostapenko at this French Open.
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Forehand, backhand, everything gets better with a little more maturity, and she gets that grown-woman strength.
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Bolelli then had another set point at 7-6, but put a forehand return in the net.
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At 15-0, Berrettini's forehand hit the net tape and bounced onto Monfils's side of the court.
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At 26-24, he saved four break points but eventually lost the game with another forehand wide.
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Wawrinka, who was the No. 1 seed, clinched by breaking serve with a fierce forehand crosscourt pass.
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A completely different animal to Chang though, relying on a powerful first serve and a crushing forehand.
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At 9–10, I thumped a series of forehand rails and then whipped a crosscourt by him.
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Federer improvised and covered the corners impressively, slashing forehand and backhand winners and hitting deft, precise volleys.
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Her forehand was locked in, and for the entire match she had Williams running from corner to corner.
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Krajinovic, however, lost his focus and a forehand error gave Sock an early break in the second set.
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The second match point was good enough for Anderson, who dominated the rally until Querrey's forehand sailed long.
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He controlled play from the back of the court with his fluid two-handed backhand and heavy forehand.
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He strikes the ball heavy with his forehand, but I would say now his backhand's getting much better.
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Monfils saved a third with an angled forehand but Djokovic converted at the fourth attempt with a volley.
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As the Russian can attest, forcing Mr Djokovic to beat you with his forehand doesn't always work out.
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The Russian sealed the match with a forehand winner and will meet defending champion Peng Shuai on Saturday.
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The Frenchman turned the situation around in the second set as Lajovic started to struggle with his forehand.
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Halep was suffering though and Ostapenko broke to love before leveling the match with a sublime forehand winner.
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"All of you guys keep thinking that my forehand is absolute crap, to be honest," he told reporters.
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Red clay is Thiem's favorite surface, and his heavy and penetrating forehand is a real weapon on it.
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No. 28 Lucie Safarova survived a grueling 2-hour-48-minute match, clinching it with a forehand winner.
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After squandering that opportunity with a unforced forehand error, he swiped his racket at the clay in frustration.
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Little separated the two from there, with Keys sometimes able to overpower Williams, especially on her forehand wing.
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The sunshine that had favored Bourgue's topspin forehand gave way to overcast skies that made for lower bounces.
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Frank Vatrano also scored in the shootout, ripping a forehand shot off Lundqvist's pad in the first round.
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Djokovic was particularly lethal with his running forehand, turning excellent attacking shots from Tsonga into better passing shots.
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Three-times Roland Garros semi-finalist Murray converted his second set point when Isner hit a forehand wide.
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With his blistering serve and his overpowering forehand, del Potro has the weapons to thrive on quick hardcourts.
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I'd rather him hit a backhand slice than to overextend and hit a forehand from the first row.
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Sock continued to find success on the forehand and broke in the eighth game when Sousa double faulted.
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She broke right back to end it, though, converting her fifth match point with a forehand return winner.
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But I was playing almost to the limit all the time, looking for winners with my forehand, backhands.
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The 5-foot Sabalenka serves with power and heavy spin, backing that up with a fearsome Western forehand.
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His down-the-line forehand approach to Vilas's backhand yielded a meager passing shot that Connors put away.
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Without hesitation, she drew her racket back on the move and hammered a piercing forehand down the line.
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Schwartzman broke Nadal in the third game, on a forehand down the line that tickled the net cord.
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She has a powerful kick serve, a heavy topspin forehand and the ability to make an opponent suffer.
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Another key aspect of Nadal's forehand prowess is to make contact with the winner standing inside the baseline.
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The average rally length when his opponent hits a forehand winner against him is much lower: 4.6 shots.
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Nadal has hit a forehand winner in 16 points where the rally length was 10 shots or more.
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"I felt like I had to go bigger, because she was hitting so many forehand winners," Gauff said.
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She recalls the moment Williams blazed a forehand long to give her a 6-3 6-2 victory.
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But it was also his flat forehand, one of the best on the tour, that made the difference.
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Donato skated in, went forehand-backhand and roofed an unassisted goal, his third, over Nilsson at 9:43.
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At 29–210, after a long rally, I held a forehand, then crunched a rail into empty space.
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At 5 feet 11 inches, Görges uses her powerful serve and flat forehand to play aggressive, opportunistic tennis.
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Dimitrov, seeded 15th, wrapped up the second set with a forehand pass that swerved around Goffin at the net.
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"When you pull it back on your forehand, you kind of make a move like you're shooting," he said.
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Williams's forehand was woeful and her opponent piled on the pressure to move 5-2 up with another break.
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Trailing 26-24 in the decider, Dimitrov's forehand crashed into the net to hand Nadal the break he needed.
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After he netted a forehand to bring up matchpoint he then fired another recklessly wide to end the contest.
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In the resulting tiebreak, Thiem suffered a meltdown and Del Potro leveled with a gravity-defying crosscourt forehand winner.
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I played good tennis, using the forehand more and more aggressive and it came together in the second set.
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Jonny Brodzinski softly flipped a pinpoint pass to Kempe, who quickly turned to his forehand for his 10th goal.
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The steps are few, and simple: deliver an inch-perfect serve to set up a heavy forehand, and... boom.
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But Kyrgios gradually turned the tide, wearing down the fleet-footed Goffin with a succession of thumping forehand winners.
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I need to feel that when I'm hitting the forehand, he's not able to take advantage on the point.
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She sealed a straightforward win on her third match point when Keys sent yet another forehand into the net.
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At one stage, Ebden simply shrugged after Nadal unleashed a wild forehand winner that was yet completely under control.
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Once they resumed, Williams erased one set point for Mladenovic at 9-8 with a swinging forehand volley winner.
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But in the second set, it was Djokovic's turn to choke, going long with a forehand before double-faulting.
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She then obtained a second break after another miscue from Giorgi, polishing off the set with a forehand winner.
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Zverev broke serve in the fifth game and again two games later when Nadal blazed a wild forehand wide.
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His forehand is heavy, and his one-handed backhand is one of the game's great (and most telegenic) weapons.
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The three hour 34 minute sweat-fest finally ended as the gallant Frenchman swiped a forehand into the net.
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Del Potro's slice backhands kept the rallies alive when necessary, while his heavy, flat forehand ended points with winners.
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She broke in the opening game with one of many forehand winners and again for a 4-1 lead.
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She wrapped it up on Kenin's serve on her first match point when the American sent a forehand long.
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He gained two set points at 6-20123 and blew the first with a tight forehand that went long.
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Sock, all of 23, is still trying to find a better-than-pedestrian backhand to complement his power forehand.
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But that lead was cancelled out by a string of forehand errors, enabling Vekic to get back to deuce.
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But Wozniacki has shored up her forehand and serve as part of a dedicated tilt toward more assertive tennis.
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He pulled Djokovic to his left with a knifing backhand crosscourt slice, then blasted an inside-in forehand winner.
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Nadal ended a nine-shot rally by stabbing at a forehand that turned into a down-the-line winner.
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But Nadal got a third break point and won it with a patented looping forehand winner off an overhead.
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Sharapova regathered herself and hit a scarcely believable forehand crosscourt winner on the run to get to 5-2.
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Coleman scored the first shootout goal with a forehand, but Conor Garland forced another round scoring on a backhander.
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Who knows how much will it affect Glushko against Niculescu (and her unconventional slice forehand) to play without them?
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It will be strength against strength: del Potro's huge, flat forehand and percussive serve against Djokovic's reflexes and returns.
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But Stephens also generated astonishing depth and the occasional viper-strike forehand winner when she deemed the moment right.
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Ostapenko's forehand will be the biggest shot hit in the match, and it will naturally go after Bacsinszky's backhand.
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Bouchard clinched a fiercely contested first set with an unreachable crosscourt forehand after fending off several forays from Sharapova.
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It's not easy to just completely switch your concentration on the Australian Open — 'How is your forehand going today?
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Her style is very similar to Muguruza's, though her forehand groundstrokes tend to have a slight topspin to them.
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Gauff's groundstrokes repeatedly broke down as Osaka applied intense pressure, focusing her attacks on Gauff's less dependable forehand wing.
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When she took the tiebreaker by ending a 32-shot rally with a forehand winner, the crowd went nuts.
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"Look, we intuitively all know that Rafa Nadal's forehand is one of the best in the sport," Reid said.
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Wawrinka swung freely on his next shot, a forehand, but Federer neutralized it with a backhand down the line.
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She earned her first break points a game later, powering a crosscourt forehand winner to grab the first set.
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From there, it took Nadal three match points to finish, reaching the second round when Bolelli missed a forehand.
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He lost the next point with another wayward forehand, allowing Edmund to serve for the match at 5-3.
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Thudding into the net after a double-fault, Thiem handed the break back to Nadal with a wild forehand.
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Berrettini hit a backhand into the net to give Nadal a set point, and then hit a forehand long.
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Muguruza reeled off nine straight games to close out the victory as Williams's forehand and defenses continued to crack.
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Zverev has fine touch, feathery footwork and an artisanal forehand that is more of a poke than a stroke.
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There was Djokovic's brilliant, caution-to-the-wind forehand return winner to save match point in the 27 semifinals.
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His forehand is so crushing it forces a "ping" from the ball that sounds like a cry for mercy.
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He was soon celebrating after swiping away a mid-court forehand to claim victory in one hour 26 minutes.
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Riding pinpoint accuracy and depth, he so flummoxed Nadal that the Spaniard once swung and whiffed on a forehand.
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Kerber spent three days hitting with Graf, then 45, whose footwork and forehand, Kerber said, seemed as fine as ever.
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Delbonis used his powerful forehand to good effect, eventually dispatching the American in a match that featured numerous long rallies.
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But Pouille looked nervous early on, spraying the court with unforced errors while Lajovic made the difference with his forehand.
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Dimitrov, a Bulgarian, was called Baby Federer early in his career because his forehand, backhand and serve technique mirrored Federer's.
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He skated in on a breakaway and beat Quick on the forehand for his first multi-goal game since Feb.
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Three consecutive forehand winners gave a ruthless Federer control of the second set tiebreak as he moved two sets clear.
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Hughes took a long pass, split the defense to create a breakaway and converted on the deke to his forehand.
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French tennis player Gael Monfils produced a forehand attempt worthy of the history books of the Australian Open this week.
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When the set drifted to a tiebreak, Bertens quickly found another gear, firing one superb forehand winner down the line.
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Closing Kerber out proved tricky, however, as she saved three match points — the third with a forehand net-cord winner.
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On the next point, Querrey took the set by winning a scrambling baseline rally with a forehand down the line.
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He's got really good touch, good volleys, puts a lot of slice on his slice backhand, quite a spinny forehand.
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She saved two break points in the following game but Williams leveled for 2-2 when Stephens's forehand sailed wide.
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Serving at 2-0, Buyukakcay made a first serve and Kvitova hit a deep forehand return through the deuce court.
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Thiem does indeed have punching power, both with his serve and his groundstrokes, the forehand doing most of the damage.
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She is dictating more often with her huge, versatile forehand, but still not enough in the view of many experts.
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She fended off the first two break points, but Konta converted on her third with a forehand cross-court winner.
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On break point, Konta rushed Stephens by coming to the net, forcing Stephens to hit a forehand passing shot wide.
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Three straight aces brought up three set points, the second of which he took when Djokovic sent another forehand long.
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With Ginepri's guidance, Tiafoe has improved the forehand to the point where it is a weapon rather than a weakness.
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Halep will be ruing the match point she missed, too, a makeable forehand return as her foe served and volleyed.
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A teacher shows you how to hit a forehand and backhand; a coach teaches you how to use those skills.
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This year, his game is all about changing direction, and then thumping a forehand down the line for a winner.
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Thiem has actually hit more forehand winners than Nadal so far: 83, including 21 against Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals.
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Rublev has a potent forehand, but a more effective backhand, though both seem to lack a feel for the ball.
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Garin remained dominant on serve in the second set, winning 16 of 19 service points as Querrey's forehand failed him.
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On the final point, Tiafoe seemed to stumble as he hit a forehand, and the ball went into the net.
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Roy then deked Hutton and slid a forehand shot under his left pad for his fourth goal of the season.
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On the next point, Williams hit a forehand winner down the line to win and raised her arms in triumph.
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The match took nearly three hours and ended with a Shapovalov forehand winner that a tired Nadal could not reach.
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Murray held Kuznetsov to only four forehand winners in the final two sets after conceding 13 in the first two.
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On the first match point, Thiem wound up his forehand for a killer blow but bashed straight into the net.
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The Russian showed exactly why, as 40 winners flowed off his racket - both from the forehand and the backhand side.
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On another, Thiem followed his serve with another forehand winner, this time painting the sideline as Zverev admired the shot.
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Ranked 26th, she is a powerful all-court player who uses her heavy topspin forehand to open up the court.
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"When he hits like that, he squeezes the court and takes your time away," Anderson said of del Potro's forehand.
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Tsitsipas looked eminently comfortable at the net and he matched Federer winner for winner on the forehand side, with 15.
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Kunin took the pass, spun to his forehand and put a shot off Hellebuyck's right hip and into the net.
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Then it was up to Lamoureux-Davidson, who pulled the puck from backhand to forehand and slipped it past Szabados.
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At 13-all, though, Kenin got the last break she'd need with a forehand return winner off a 102 mph serve.
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He needed only one to close it out, crushing a forehand cross-court that Rubin could only parry high and wide.
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The pair exchanged early breaks in the opening set before Kasatkina fired a blistering forehand to take a 4-2 lead.
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It often seemed effortless for Stephens, who broke for a 3-1 edge when Halep put a forehand in the net.
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One down-the-line forehand winner landed right at the baseline and Thiem&aposs shoulders sagged as he muttered to himself.
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The Russian sent a forehand service return long on match point to end the engrossing two hour and 41 minute battle.
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Paire served 10 aces among his 39 winners but was plagued by 46 errors, 28 of which came on his forehand.
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Goerges dominated the early exchanges, producing an array of forehand winners to break the Frenchwoman twice and claim the opening set.
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Parmentier dropped the first 10 points of the match, including a love break in which she struck four consecutive forehand errors.
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Soaking up the fifth seed's firepower, she counter-punched brilliantly to seal the match with a pair of rasping forehand winners.
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I thought I hit my forehand great and made it really tough for him to be offensive, which is his game.
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He led 30-0 but lost his focus and scooped a forehand long to allow Del Potro back in the contest.
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Wozniacki's patience snapped at 5-6 and she blazed a forehand wide to hand Kasatkina the first set after 69 minutes.
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Keys lost patience at 3-3 and blazed a forehand long, then a backhand to offer up the break of serve.
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But the American broke Halep with a forehand winner and held two set points on the Romanian's serve at 6-5.
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Cibulkova, ranked 18 in the world, survived a monumental 11th game in the set, saving match point with a forehand winner.
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Kerber seemed out of sorts from the start, while Pliskova looked comfortable and quickly found the range with her big forehand.
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It let him down in the seventh game when he netted a forehand volley on break point — handing Murray the momentum.
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After resisting well in the opening set, relying on his whipping forehand, Pouille lost his aggressiveness and Goffin took full advantage.
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The whip-cracked forehand - inside out, crosscourt or down the line - has been the biggest of big shots for recent generations.
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Nadal soon pounced however, breaking Djokovic to go 4-203 up before the Serb rode his forehand to a stunning recovery.
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Guentzel set up Rust, who moved down the slot and deked forehand to backhand to deposit the puck past Luongo's skate.
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Striking the ball clean and true, Djokovic pressurized Nadal and broke in the seventh game when the Spaniard netted a forehand.
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Tsitsipas then had six set points repelled before bagging the opener on his seventh set point as Federer netted a forehand.
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The Spaniard says his wrist is improving day by day but concedes that he needs to cut loose on his forehand.
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He either finishes the point with an inside-out forehand winner or finds himself at a disadvantage on the next shot.
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Instead he will face, much like himself, an imposing North American whose game is built around a huge serve and forehand.
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Johansen deked from forehand to backhand and shoveled a short shot past Allen for the most important goal in franchise history.
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He produced too little depth with his groundstrokes and, above all, too little precision under the greatest pressure with his forehand.
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After holding for 5-4, Williams had her match point when Pliskova dumped a forehand into the net at 30-all.
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A pair of strong returns, a forehand winner and a stab volley put Goerges back within striking distance at 15-40.
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Nadal's high-kicking left-handed forehand can still wear down Federer's one-handed backhand like nothing else on clay or earth.
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Latisha had what Hingis looks for in a partner: power from the baseline, and a preference for playing the forehand side.
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"I don't know much," Gauff said of Hercog, a 28-year-old with an excellent serve and a heavy topspin forehand.
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For Florida, Hoffman stole the puck and was off on a breakaway, hitting the net on a forehand-to-backhand move.
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He extended rallies with his speed and anticipation, and craftily worked to steer the ball away from del Potro's lethal forehand.
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The 25-year-old Vandeweghe is a powerhouse with a blistering forehand and one of the most powerful serves on tour.
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Müller held again, and at 13-14 Nadal mis-hit a forehand to set up a fifth match point for Müller.
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Fleury stopped his forehand try with his right pad to improve to 4-for-4 in stopping penalty shots with Vegas.
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Kontaveit, who is 5 feet 9 inches, hits with power from both sides, but her potent forehand is her favorite shot.
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She saved one with a big backhand winner but netted a forehand on the second and from there things unraveled quickly.
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Troicki had both time and opportunity, but knocked a manageable forehand volley long from a position of strength near the net.
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When a final forehand skipped past Halep, Zhang screamed and turned to her coach, who could not hold back tears for long.
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Anderson finally came through on his sixth to lead 25-24, then served out the victory when Isner sailed a forehand wide.
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But instead of losing hope, Nishikori picked up his racket and fired a couple of powerful forehand swings before winning the game.
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With dark clouds closing in Thiem broke serve with a huge forehand early in the third, shortly before the rain started again.
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The Argentine saved three break points in the seventh game of the third set and claimed it with a searing forehand winner.
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Kvitova's chances could hinge on her killer serve and powerful forehand as Osaka is likely to have the edge in longer rallies.
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It doesn't matter if Mirza's forehand is a perfect complement to Hingis's backhand if the two are never on the same page.
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But instead of volleying into an open court to prise a set point off the Swiss, he pushed the forehand well wide.
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Another ill-timed rush to the net, though, cost Keys a break, Stephens punishing her with a delightful dipping forehand passing shot.
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Begu sent a forehand wide in a see-sawing sixth game as Halep broke again and took the first set on serve.
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"On first serve, against Seppi, he actually served more into the body and forehand than out wide to the backhand," he said.
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She came back only to see Kerber inflict further damage with her trademark forehand down the line to go 5-0 up.
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Vallverdu praised Dimitrov's footwork as he recovered from the backhand corner; he gave a tip about contact point on the forehand volley.
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As with many of the youngest players on tour — from Nick Kyrgios to Jack Sock — Edmund's greatest weapon is a ferocious forehand.
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There was no stopping Nadal who regularly moved Bautista Agut out of position, opening the court up effortlessly with powerful forehand combinations.
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Thursday, when Barbora Strycova hit a forehand winner on Court 63 to beat Anett Kontaveit, the first round of Wimbledon finally ended.
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He hit a forehand winner and put away a shot at the net to rally to win the game on his serve.
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Keys, however, broke back for 5-5 with a stunning forehand winner down the line and the set went to a tiebreak.
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Kerber, No. 2 in the world, then hit a forehand long to finish her third straight opening-match loss in the event.
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World number two Murray deployed a precision defensive game which eventually wore down the towering Argentine's barreling forehand and powerful service game.
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Keys closed out the first set with a forehand service return, then broke Puig, the Olympic champion, three times in the decider.
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Venus hammered a forehand winner to bring up three match points and Pavlyuchenkova surrendered the match meekly with her ninth double-fault.
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The big Croat upped his serving and forehand power to level the match and then led 3-1 in the third set.
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She coolly nailed another forehand down the line that landed on the opposite baseline with a puff of chalk for another winner.
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But Nadal pulled away after that to serve out the victory on his second match point when Chung hit a forehand long.
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"Most of the players like conventional rallies: Most players manage to hit their first serve, forehand and backhand very hard," Federer said.
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"On one side of the court, we didn't have room to hit a backhand or forehand," she said in a telephone interview.
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The young woman with the fearsome forehand and 120-mile-per-hour serve may not simply be the future of women's tennis.
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If he serve well and hits well his forehand, he's a player that has a chance to win against, of course, everybody.
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Still apparently staggered, Federer missed his first forehand of the next point, and Djokovic won the final four games of the match.
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Postcards From the French Open PARIS — It looked like an easy shot for John McEnroe: a forehand sitter, lined up just right.
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While he prevailed against Cilic, del Potro deviated from his normal recipe for success, hitting only three winners off his signature forehand.
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Marterer had run the entire width of the court — from one alley to the other — to hit the forehand on the run.
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Evert hit an uncharacteristic high forehand volley that smacked Navratilova squarely on the head, prompting her to fall back in feigned pain.
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However he was shod, Berdych was not going to catch up to some of Federer's dazzling running forehand winners down the line.
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When Wawrinka blazed a forehand well off-target on Murray's first match point, the formerly top-ranked Murray celebrated a remarkable comeback.
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Still, he has an aggressive forehand and he uses his court coverage to "make opponents go for too small targets," Annacone said.
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Gauff's forehand is not a pure stroke and can break down, as it did frequently in the final two sets on Sunday.
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In particular, Williams had the momentum in a long rally on that first set point, but lost it with a netted forehand.
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Tennis analysts can see that Mr Federer's whippy forehand and Serena Williams' punchy backhand are unique, somehow, but struggle to explain why.
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Another comparison: Rafael Nadal's forehand, usually thought to be the fastest-rotating groundstroke in tennis, typically clocks in at about 3,500 r.p.m.
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In the off-season, she hired Wim Fissette as her new coach and worked to improve her forehand and return of serve.
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Nadal saved that one with a nerveless forehand winner down the line but there was more trouble for Spain in the tiebreak.
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The exchange ended, mercifully, with a booming Nadal down-the-line forehand, which the powerfully built Tiafoe sent meekly into the net.
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She double faulted again later in the game and barely moved as Muguruza hit a forehand winner to go ahead, 4-3.
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He volleyed an easy forehand into the net, allowing Ignatik to break his serve, and immediately threw his racket at the bench.
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A couple of sweet Lopez volleys put the duo 8-4 ahead and Lope crunched a forehand winner to bring up match points.
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Martic forced a tiebreak and was trailing 2-3 when Mertens switched gears, eventually clinching the opening set with a sharp forehand winner.
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Fourier, after colliding with Heat rookie Justise Winslow, suffered a bloody gash on his forehand in the last minute of the second quarter.
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A forehand error ended Bertens's day out on Philippe Chatrier Court, leaving Williams one win away from a 22nd grand slam singles title.
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While Stephens temporarily halted her slide, getting to 4-all, Halep used two consecutive powerful forehand winners to hold in the next game.
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Ruud broke in his first return game as Sousa, who had his left leg heavily wrapped, was wide on a cross-court forehand.
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Though dragging his feet between points, Medvedev snuck a break point at 3-2 but saw it disappear with a searing Djokovic forehand.
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And then when he's in the rally, he plays with great spin on the forehand, great sort of control on the backhand side.
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Bencic took the first set by breaking the Australian in the penultimate game as Barty sent her forehand long from behind the baseline.
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Coric served for the win at 24-254 in the tiebreaker but lost the point when he hit a forehand into the net.
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Kyle Okposo sent the puck down low and Lee worked a nice forehand-to-backhand move before sliding the puck between Korpisalo's legs.
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Osaka's forehand shot — in which a player hits a tennis ball with their palm facing forward — travels more than 100 miles per hour.
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The Spaniard maintained the pressure, a forehand winner down the line capturing an early break and a 2-0 lead in third set.
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On Saturday, he missed three break points in the first set before finally breaking in the 10th game with an aggressive forehand winner.
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He could still play sonatas with his sneakers, and he still makes a forehand look more like expression of thought than physical effort.
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But Raonic recovered again to set up a fourth consecutive tiebreak and it took an wayward Wawrinka forehand to end the enthralling contest.
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The right wing forced a turnover at the top of the Oilers' zone and switched from backhand to forehand to score past Koskinen.
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The Scot just missed with one attempted pass but converted his second break point when a powerful forehand forced a Raonic volley error.
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Crosby skated in and flipped a forehand to the glove side across Raanta, igniting the yellow-clad sellout crowd at Consol Energy Center.
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Kyrgios, 21, continues to climb the rankings with his menacing brand of power tennis, which features a thunderous serve and a sledgehammer forehand.
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Then he unleashed one of his signature backhands down the line, out of reach of del Potro's forehand, for a perfectly constructed winner.
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Against Halep, Williams produced timely drop shots and won 26 of 32 points at net, repeatedly attacking down the line with her forehand.
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There was no way he was going to let 11th seed Goffin back after he completed the recovery with a classy forehand winner.
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Nadal breezed through the opener, bringing up set point with a trademark curling forehand before sealing the set with a deft drop shot.
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Keys fended off the danger, though, and completed victory with a punishing forehand that landed right on to the baseline after 73 minutes.
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A forehand error on the first delayed her celebrations but she made no mistake on the second when the Ukrainian netted a backhand.
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Williams's net play was also more effective at Wimbledon, partly because of a shift in court positioning to counter Kerber's cross-court forehand.
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When serving at 5-4 to stay in the first set, she double-faulted and butchered a forehand to offer three set points.
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Venus and Serena's dad and first coach, Richard Williams, didn't just teach them how to hit a perfect forehand when they were kids.
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Del Potro, who at 6-foot-6 takes time to change direction, reached the ball but hit the running forehand into the net.
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"For sure with the kick serve, the forehand topspin and the drop shot and slice on clay, she can be magic," Dehaes said.
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But she missed a big-swinging forehand return on the next point off Kasatkina's second serve and never found her range consistently again.
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Nadal goes up, 4-1, after breaking Federer again, this time picking up a short hop at the net for a forehand winner.
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"He does so many cool things with how he moves and how he returns and how he plays with his forehand," Sandgren said.
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Wozniacki, who saved both break points she faced, clinched the match on her third match point with a forehand to the open court.
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Parise backhanded the puck between his legs and then reached back between them to flick a forehand behind Greiss with 8:49 left.
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A forehand is usually hit from an open stance in this era, with the nonplaying hand pointing in the direction of the ball.
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As del Potro wore down, he had increasing difficulty with his forehand and his backhand, the shot most affected by his wrist injuries.
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She crushed her 46th winner, a forehand from the baseline, on match point to end the nearly two-and-a-half-hour encounter.
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The last came on match point, with Nadal cracking a forehand winner cross-court, seamlessly finishing his follow-through with a celebratory leap.
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Seguin settled the puck with his skate and lifted a forehand shot over a lunging Crawford for his 15th goal of the season.
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The average rally length when Nadal finishes the point with a forehand winner so far at Roland Garros this year is seven shots.
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Wawrinka used his sublime one-handed backhand and hammer of a forehand to send Murray scrambling and sliding all over Court Philippe Chatrier.
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Now he is back to whipping his forehand with his trademark blend of abandon and precision, and back in another French Open final.
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The terraces gasped as Barty fired a forehand just wide to allow Kvitova two chances to break back when serving for the match.
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The young American star Madison Keys's average forehand speed ranked first among the women but also ahead of all men except Tomas Berdych.
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Kvitova beat Maria Sharapova in straight sets in the final with a display of thunderous power from her swooping serve and percussive forehand.
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She won four straight games in the second set to put pressure on Collins, and ultimately evened the match with a forehand winner.
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She compromised herself from the service line with seven double faults and blasted a forehand way wide of the sideline at set point.
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"Whoa," they exclaimed after another swashbuckling southpaw forehand accompanied by the guttural Nadal soundtrack and that familiar curled-lip sneer of momentary satisfaction.
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Saad went to his forehand, but Rinne held his ground and denied Saad's point-blank attempt by kicking out his right leg pad.
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He made 12 unforced forehand errors as Monfils broke early to race to a 4-2 lead before easing through the opening set.
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On one point, even though he was backpedaling, Thiem nailed a scorching forehand that the 22019-foot-230 Zverev could only flail at.
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She has a powerful forehand and two-handed backhand, as well as a dangerous backhand chip that skids and stays low on grass.
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Miro Heiskanen's hard shot missed to the right of Ullmark's net and wound up bouncing out to Benn's forehand on the left side.
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He then struck decisively in the 21st game of the set when he moved forward to force a forehand error from his opponent.
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She saved one break point with a forehand volley winner on the 22th stroke of the rally after running Kerber from side to side.
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I knew that if I stayed in the rallies on the forehand side, I would probably definitely, 99% of the time, win the rally.
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The Swiss slammed the door shut, however, nervelessly crushing a forehand deep into the corner and then rushing forward to put away the volley.
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Monfils earned the first break of the match in the 12th game, putting together powerful backhand and forehand passing shots to take the set.
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She did close the gap to 4-3 before Garcia held her nerve to break again and wrap up victory with a forehand winner.
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Frolik took a pass on an odd-man rush, headed to the doorstep and lifted a forehand for his 13th goal of the season.
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Filppula forwarded a pass to Boyle, who split a pair of Blackhawks defenders and beat Crawford with a forehand shot for his 12th goal.
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He's hitting his trademark forehand, Novak is getting ready for his trademark return of serve and Roger is hitting his trademark one-handed BHDTL.
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She still had not found her range properly, though, and Williams levelled for 3-3 with a break when Kvitova fired a forehand long.
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After an exchange of breaks early in the second set, the Russian sealed the win in the tiebreak on a forehand error by Kvitova.
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That gives him a bigger angle to hit to the right-hander's backhand, increasing his chances of starting the point with his favored forehand.
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Azarenka got to set point on a perfect drop shot, and she won the set at 6-3 after Kuznetsova hit a forehand wide.
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With his signature forehand firing, he blasted through the feisty defense of No. 63-seeded David Ferrer, 7-6 (3), 26-22, 221-26.
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Wozniacki seemed to be waiting for an out call on Kerber's final shot and pulled up on her forehand, but a call never came.
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But Querrey, a 6-foot-6 Californian once ranked inside the top 20, has no shortage of firepower, with a huge serve and forehand.
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He sped through the slot and went to his forehand to lift the puck by Carey Price's right pad while falling to the ice.
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Nadal took the opening set with a blistering forehand and went on to convert two breakpoint opportunities in the second to lift the title.
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She possesses strong groundstrokes on both the forehand and backside sides, cracking winners with 8% of her shots, in line with the tour average.
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Blasting a run-around forehand winner to bring up two set points, he converted the second when a harried Bautista Agut found the net.
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Djokovic was leading, 24-23, when Tsonga reeled off three straight errors, including two off his forehand that extended Djokovic's lead to 6-1.
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But Nadal quickly recovered in the next game to break Nishikori and won the match on his serve with a forehand down the line.
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Thiem broke to move into a 4-1 lead and had a point to lead 5-1, which Djokovic saved with a clubbing forehand.
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That brought Federer's 34-year-old legs back to life and he sprinted around to win the set after Djokovic smacked a forehand long.
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Nishikori needed three match points to serve out for victory but wrapped up the contest after 122 minutes when Tsonga slashed another forehand wide.
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Her powerful first serve allows her to dictate play from the baseline and she spanks winners with her forehand or backhand with equal ease.
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Vesey tied it at 5 minutes 5 seconds of the third with a nifty forehand-backhand combination for his fifth goal of the season.
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Quick and powerful, he has one of the prettiest one-handed backhands in the game yet does his most consistent damage with his forehand.
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Vondrousova, a left-hander with a whipping forehand and a proclivity for drop shots, will test Konta's newfound dexterity and comfort on the clay.
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But on the sixth break point, Nadal saw a second serve and won a short rally when Federer hit a forehand in the net.
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That was more than long enough for Federer to identify and exploit Chung's weak points: his forehand under pressure, his first serve, his variety.
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The 5-foot-9-inch Bosnian -- ranked as high as 23rd last year -- raced to a 4-153 lead as Federer's forehand went awry.
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Keys found that shot more often in the second set, rattling off five forehand winners to bring her total to eight for the match.
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Barty rallied from 24-15 down to break her opponent for the sixth time, claiming the win as the Spaniard sent a forehand wide.
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Tanev answered at 16:58 after settling a rebound and moving the puck from his backhand to his forehand before scoring from the slot.
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Because of her extreme forehand grip, she is also vulnerable to low balls, and Kenin gave her plenty of them with her chopped groundstrokes.
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Her forehand was considered enough of a liability in her youth that she considered hitting it with her left hand instead of her right.
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At 30-all, she unleashed a backhand return to bring up a fourth break point and then forced Barty to hit her forehand long.
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A crunching forehand winner at 5-5 in the tiebreak earned him a set point and Nadal then dumped a backhand into the net.
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Couturier went wide to the right, cut across and flipped a forehand shot over Marcus Hogberg's blocker in the top of the third round.
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At the end of the match I was creating more space but at the beginning I failed to convert several chances with my forehand.
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Nadal played tighter to finally take the first break of the match and move 3-2 up when his opponent sent a forehand wide.
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His slight build and boyish looks belie the blistering power he generates, particularly with his forehand, one of the best in the men's game.
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Thiem slammed backhands for all they were worth, cleaned the lines with his forehand, and the sonic boom from his serve resonated around the court.
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Riding the support of Melbourne's large Croatian community, Cilic sealed the win on his first match point when Verdasco hammered a forehand into the net.
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A second chance came and went as she clubbed an easy forehand long after pouncing on an airy Mladenovic drop shot that sat up begging.
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"She was playing very different to me, a lot of slice and playing strong off the forehand and having a good serve," Kerber told reporters.
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The 24-year-old displayed lightning-quick footwork in his bright pink shoes, and delighted the packed crowd with his formidable serve and powerful forehand.
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Muguruza, who lifted the Suzanne Lenglen Cup in 2016, relied on her booming forehand throughout and wrapped it up when Larsson netted a service return.
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It was another thumping forehand that brought her victory on the second match point of the final game for her sixth win against the Pole.
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The pressure told as a forehand ballooned off the frame of Nadal's racquet and another backhand sailed long to put the match on level terms.
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Zucker faked a forehand shot before slipping a backhander through Mason's legs with 4:02 to go in the second to make it 963-2.
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From Pete Sampras's running flat hit to Rafa Nadal's lasso-swung shot, the big forehand has been central to success for the sport's greatest names.
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The reserved Canadian raised his fists in triumph after his Swiss opponent misfired on his forehand on match point after four hours of intense play.
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Halep smacked a forehand winner down the line to seal the convincing victory and keep her hopes of regaining the world number one spot alive.
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She just doesn't have the power or athleticism to keep up with the modern game, which is where Mirza and her lethal forehand comes in.
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She closed it out with a booming forehand winner and broke again in the third game of the second set with a service return winner.
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That failure ended the Serb's resistance and Nadal won in style on his opponent's serve, striking a punishing forehand down the line to seal victory.
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Carreno Busta was staring at defeat when 6-5 down in the tiebreak but was let off the hook when Anderson missed with a forehand.
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The 12th-seeded Serb broke back immediately with a dipping forehand but Nadal replied with another break which proved decisive as he leveled the match.
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The German was 5-0 down in the tiebreak but battled back before Isner took the match to a third set with a forehand winner.
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She then began grabbing at her left thigh after points, but somehow found the energy to break Wozniacki with a swashbuckling forehand down the line.
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The Australian took the opener when she converted a break point at the third time of asking, punishing Svitolina's second serve with a firm forehand.
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He ran all the way outside the doubles alley behind the baseline to crush a big forehand return crosscourt, immediately forcing a Tiafoe backhand error.
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In the next game, Williams got ahead, 0-30, with a scorching crosscourt forehand that Kozlova sent wide and a backhand winner down the line.
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"Last year in Beijing, I was more focused about playing the forehand, moving her," the Frenchwoman told reporters, while referencing her first win over Kerber.
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Serving for the set, the Frenchwoman came back from a 0-30 deficit and closed out the set four points later on another forehand winner.
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Tsonga came up with another crucial hold at 6-6 with a forehand winner and another serve that Djokovic could not handle, forcing another tiebreak.
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He finished with a flourish - a trade-mark crashing forehand on to the line - to wrap up the ideal victory in well under two hours.
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Kyrgios was re-energized for the fifth, cutting down the high-risk, low-reward drop shots, and really finding his range with his powerful forehand.
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Having just watched a forehand winner whistle past her, Strycova double-faulted and fluffed an attempted drop shot to hand over the break of serve.
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Tiafoe missed wide on an open-court forehand by two inches that would have given him a 4-1 lead in a third-set tiebreaker.
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Heaping pressure on Townsend's serve at 22016-23, she earned herself two set points and converted the first, with a forehand winner from the baseline.
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When Isner's final forehand sailed wide, Anderson could have been excused for doing cartwheels or at the very least multiple fist pumps on the grass.
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Known for his torquing topspin and forceful forehand, Rafael Nadal showed off a different, metaphoric skill late Tuesday night at the United States Open: digestion.
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But Nadal has proved through the years to be almost as good at recovery as he is at whipping forehand passing shots on the run.
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Paire was the aggressor with his whipping forehand, and his serve was electric, leaving Djokovic walking side to side along the baseline after each ace.
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" Nadal continued: "If I am able to play good tennis and play well with my forehand and backhand, I hope to put him in trouble.
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But then Anderson slipped on the grass, rose to his feet and slapped a forehand with his nondominant left hand to keep a rally alive.
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Karlovic first serve Honorable mention: Djokovic backhand and Raonic serve A clear top three among the players with del Potro's thunderclap forehand taking the prize.
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Sevastova, a semi-finalist in New York last year, was sharper throughout and blazed a crosscourt forehand winner past Bouchard's outstretched racket on match point.
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Kvitova began striking her groundstrokes harder, scoring with her inside-out forehand, and she closed out the second set with two aces in three points.
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Mired in a 15-game goal-less drought, Cousins took a pass from Weise, cut through the slot and put a forehand shot on Fleury.
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Johnson, who had trailed by 4-6 in the final tiebreaker, broke down in sobs after his final forehand winner — while Coric smashed his racket.
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Incredibly Nadal showed mercy at 6-4 in the tiebreak, failing to put away a short forehand, and Shapovalov arrowed a winner down the line.
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An increasingly weary-looking Venus wilted under the pressure and made a string of errors, surrendering the set by burying a forehand into the net.
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Against Kerber, Osaka dominated with her powerful forehand, particularly in the second set, in which she walloped 10 of her 14 winners off that wing.
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MONTREAL — With a powerful forehand stroke, the 24-year-old Denis Shapovalov became a new household name for tennis fans and Canadians on Thursday night.
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"I heard a stat that he hits the hardest with the most rotation of spin on the forehand, on average, on the tour," Young said.
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But Murray stayed focused and wrapped up a no-nonsense win on his first match point when the 27th seed sprayed a forehand well wide.
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It felt like Nadal was tackling Britain on his own as he saved a fourth set point with a monstrous forehand that whistled past Murray.
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At 63-26, Li rocketed a forehand passing shot to get the game to deuce, and she eventually won the game with a blistering backhand.
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Neither is the extreme topspin on a Rafael Nadal forehand or the way the net cord shakes after being struck by a Venus Williams serve.
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But one day, he finished off a forehand and dropped his racket after being struck by the realization that his love for the sport was lacking.
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He tried a two-hander in the second set, but he was more interested in seeing how effective his serve and forehand would be, he said.
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C John Tavares switched from a backhand to a forehand while eluding defenseman Nate Schmidt and poking the puck between the legs of goalie Braden Holtby.
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When he netted a forehand to close a 14-stroke back-and-forth in the second set, he pounded his strings on his head several times.
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That could have been a turning point but Mertens regathered herself and served out at the second attempt when Svitolina miscued a forehand after 41 minutes.
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Stephens struck a powerful forehand to go 4-2 up in the decider but stumbled again when serving for the match, allowing Sasnovich to break back.
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Going to my backhand I just brought back to my forehand, I knew when that went in that Maddie was going to stop the next one.
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Drouin scored at 12:34 on a breakaway from the Toronto blue line, shifting from his forehand to his backhand before stuffing the puck behind Hutchinson.
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Federer looked more relieved than overjoyed when Tiafoe's forehand found the net on match point to keep his hopes of a 20th grand slam title alive.
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After unleashing a forehand winner down the line to seal the win, he tore off his shirt, pounded his chest and yelled "Yeah!" at the terraces.
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On set point Djokovic pounded three consecutive forehands deep in into Chung's backhand, each one returned at full stretch, before Djokovic cracked and netted a forehand.
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New Jersey&aposs leading goal scorer broke in on Domingue and faked a shot before using a forehand-backhand move to slide the puck under Domingue.
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But despite the loud backing of the crowd, the Frenchman wasted a set point before handing the set to Lajovic when he fired a forehand wide.
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Ostapenko, who will rise to world number 12 from 47 following Saturday's win, also worked a lot on her forehand, which was then her weakest shot.
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After sealing the match in style with a thumping forehand winner from the baseline, Sandgren threw down his racket and raised his arms aloft in joy.
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McDavid used his speed to slice between Canucks defensemen Erik Gudbranson and Hutton, then beat goaltender Ryan Miller on a forehand shot through the five hole.
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"Is not easy to go two months-and-a-half out of competition in the middle of the season without hitting a forehand," Nadal told reporters.
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Ostapenko made a typically high 33 unforced errors, but her powerful forehand kept her out of trouble against Romanian Cirstea, who is also her doubles partner.
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In tennis, you don't have to search far down the ranks to find players for whom balancing the books is as vital as a good forehand.
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At 5-2, Pegula used a strong forehand to force another error and get to double match point, which she converted immediately with a service winner.
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Kuznetsova fought off two break points to hold and make it 4-2, but she sent a forehand high and wide to fall behind, 5-2.
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After the break, Mladenovic jumped out to a 5-2 lead but missed an inside-out forehand that would have put her up by 6-2.
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His forehand remains a potent weapon, but Wawrinka eventually neutralized it in the third and fourth sets, pointing to his temple more than once in exclamation.
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Isner used the same tactics at 1-1, 30-30, in the fourth set, moving back to unleash another aggressive forehand return, eventually winning the point.
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After holding serve and cutting the lead to 4-1, Rogers appeared to tweak something near her right elbow as she blasted away at a forehand.
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Federer sealed the title with a forehand winner on the second championship point but had to endure a nervous wait as Nadal challenged the line call.
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A rejuvenated Halep clinched the second set with a forehand winner and predictably swept through the decider as Svitolina's spirit sagged, sealing victory with an ace.
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He needed to save a match point in the 10th game of the fourth set when Cilic missed a lunging forehand return off a second serve.
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Delbonis went up a break in the first two sets and added two more in the third when Karlovic sent a forehand wide for the victory.
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But the world number 29 prevailed in the final set tiebreak, clinching the win with a forehand groundstroke down the line for his second ATP victory.
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The two began their one-hour lesson, as usual, with a few minutes of long warm-up rallies, first to the forehand, then to the backhand.
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But a sensational forehand pass by Thiem gave him a fourth set point which he converted when his dipping backhand forced a volley error from Djokovic.
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However, the business-like Bautista Agut was relentless and jumped ahead in the fourth set before claiming victory when Pella looped a forehand over the baseline.
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Her strokes are so crisp, her forehand so powerful, her movement so purposeful, her angles so precise, that she looks like she's hitting against a wall.
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Thirty five minutes later, the Spaniard whipped a forehand winner on match point to make sure it was game on with Federer in Friday's semi-final.
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Mouratoglou took pride and delight in Williams's last shot on Saturday: a well-punched forehand volley, the same shot she missed to lose the Australian Open.
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WIMBLEDON, England — On the first point of the women's final at Wimbledon on Saturday, Angelique Kerber ended a rally with a forehand winner down the line.
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And though Streep channeled Munch after a del Potro forehand, her look would also be appropriate for a men's tennis player looking at a rejuvenated Djokovic.
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The Serb was in clinical form, retrieving Del Potro's scorching forehand time and time again and delivering a masterclass in defensive tennis to beat the Argentine.
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Ostapenko chased down a drop shot and punched it back, but Stephens stretched near the baseline to hit a forehand volley cross-court for a winner.
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Nadal, who grew up on red clay in Majorca, possesses a huge, looping lefty forehand that he can massage into the tiniest openings on the court.
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Bartoli was a player with myriad idiosyncrasies both on the match court and practice court, including elaborate pre-service rituals and a hammering, two-handed forehand.
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Ruud has modeled his game on Nadal's, not Federer's, from the heavy topspin forehand to a penchant for standing deep behind the baseline to return serve.
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Skeptics could argue that Sampras's strongest groundstroke was still his forehand, much as it is for Federer, Thiem, Dimitrov and, it appears, for Tsitsipas and Shapovalov.
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Barty ultimately battled through to a tiebreak and secured the victory when the American went wide with a forehand at the end of another lengthy rally.
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SECOnd Set: Changeover With Osaka Leading, 4-1143 Osaka broke Williams's serve again, this time with an impressive down-the-line forehand with Williams at net.
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In the fourth set, del Potro got an early break and held off Federer from there, finishing the victory with an emphatic forehand down the line.
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Over all, Nadal has hit a forehand groundstroke winner 18 times as an approach shot, looking to finish the point at the front of the court.
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LOS ANGELES — During a recent practice, Claire Liu sent an easy forehand sailing to the fence beyond the baseline and pressed a palm to her forehead.
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The occasionally volatile Russian has one of the best brains on Tour with remarkable composure under pressure and packing a punch with his serve and forehand.
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It was often spectacular, with Nadal whipping forehand winners down the line into the corner from extreme positions, and Kyrgios conjuring unexpected angles and touch shots.
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He saved the first break point, but then tried to hit a risky forehand that sailed long, allowing Nadal to level the set at 26-22.
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He skated into the Ottawa zone along the left side, split defenders, then went from his backhand to his forehand to slip the puck past Hogberg.
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Nadal faced down a break point, and then at deuce he carved out a nervy forehand slice drop shot to give him his third match point.
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Thiem leads his head-to-head series with Zverev, 6-2, and has been having no trouble with his own second serve or forehand under pressure.
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Fittingly, the Michael Chang-coached Nishikori ended the contest with a clean, cross-court forehand winner to keep his hopes of a maiden Grand Slam alive.
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As does the attention to detail that means Raonic is always seeking marginal gains to add to one of the game's most destructive serve/forehand combinations.
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Fortunately for him, his serve and crushing crosscourt forehand were in working order, especially when he hit an ace on the only break point he faced.
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But he is the same kind of champion: a supreme in-the-moment battler whose attitude is as big a weapon as his bolo-whip forehand.
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The biggest rankings leap into the top 218 was made by Matteo Berrettini, a 229-year-old Italian with charm and a ferocious forehand and serve.
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The next game on Thiem's serve proved to be a battle, but he held with a lunging forehand volley that caught the side of the line.
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It is what drove her in the past year to create more spin on her forehand, which produced eight winners in the deciding set on Saturday.
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Known for consistency rather than raw power, Svitolina hit more freely on her forehand, using it as a weapon to complement her superb two-handed backhand.
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But the Austrian freed his shoulders and broke back in the third game with forehand winner — pumping his fists in the direction of coach Gunter Bresnik.
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Admittedly left-hander Bemelmans, ranked 133, was having a decidedly ordinary day with his forehand misfiring completely but it was a powerful statement by Wawrinka nonetheless.
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Once again, Wawrinka clinched the set on Nishikori's serve when the Japanese lunged to hit a forehand volley on a rifled passing shot and sent it long.
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Letunov outmuscled two Edmonton defenders for a rebound of Erik Karlsson shot's, spun to his forehand and shoveled the puck into the empty side of the net.
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Williams faced two break points, saving the first with a flat ace into the corner and the second with a forehand winner after another big first serve.
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Another whipping forehand earned Janowicz, a former world number 14 who has been plagued by injuries in recent seasons, his first two break points on Dimitrov's serve.
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After a fake onto his forehand, he tucked the puck behind Rask for his fifth goal of the season and his second goal in as many games.
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He fanned on his forehand attempt then wheeled around and banked a backhand shot off Anderson for his 11th goal of the season in his 15th game.
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With the former world number one's groundstrokes failing her, Kozlova reeled off 11 of the next 12 points, breaking back for 5-63 with a forehand winner.
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Left-hander Melzer continued to strike the ball heavily, especially off the forehand side, and Murray grew visibly rattled at his inability to polish off his opponent.
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Osaka carved out two break points and although Keys saved the first one, she forced an error on the American's forehand to take a 3-2 lead.
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Nadal simply let his racket do the talking, and he pounded a forehand deep into the corner to break the shaggy-haired tyro in the third game.
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Kvitova would not be denied, however, unleashing her powerful forehand and elevating her play to capture the final two games of the set before cruising to victory.
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Del Potro has looked one of the biggest threats to Nadal's domination this year, with his pulverizing forehand dismantling everyone in his path on the Parisian clay.
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A forehand that went long on match point saw Keys wrap up victory and book a last-16 meeting with world number five Simona Halep of Romania.
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Momentum swung in Thiem's favor in the deciding set when he smacked a forehand winner down the line to break Federer and take a 6-5 lead.
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Tsitsipas could only block the rocket back, setting up an easy forehand winner that ended the match on a hot and humid night in the U.S. capital.
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MEDICAL TIME-OUT With only a single forehand winner to his name, Edmund exited the court for a medical time-out but returned still troubled of mind.
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She closed out the match with a break at the end of the second set, forcing an error from her Danish opponent with a ferocious crosscourt forehand.
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Berrettini snatched at a forehand at 2-3 to gift Djokovic the break and in no time at all he was a set and 4-0 down.
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Cornet floated another forehand drop shot, this one brushing the net, to break for 5-1, and fittingly closed it out with a drop-shot pass combination.
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The Romanian sent a forehand into the net to offer Sharapova a break point, and allowed the Russian to level at 4-4 with a double fault.
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Sock was broken again with a netted forehand under pressure in the fifth game, and the more realistic fans filed out on the changeover at 4-1.
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Beginning to ooze confidence, he pounced in the fifth game of the decider, earning a break point with an angled backhand and converting with a thunderous forehand.
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The New York Times wrote about the unlikely tutelage in March, detailing how Ms. Wu has helped the comedian with his serve, forehand, backhand and playing strategy.
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Mapo High's players pressed against the fence along the dusty hardcourts and chanted their support while Lee crushed forehand winners past his bespectacled opponent in the final.
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The fourth seed consolidated to take a 5-3 lead and clinched the set in the ninth game when the Portuguese hit a forehand into the net.
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But Williams earned breaks in two of the last three games to take the set, smacking a forehand winner off Radwanska's second serve on the last point.
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But this was the most chastening as she lasted only 22 minutes before biffing a forehand into the net — her 25th unforced error — to end the contest.
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Cilic saved one break point at 2-3, but Federer gained two more at 3-4 with forehand winners, converting the second to serve for the match.
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However, Kvitova regained her composure to win four consecutive games and secured the win on her first match point with a sizzling forehand winner down the line.
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Andreescu smashed a forehand winner on match point to seal the win and smiled before shaking the hand of the 2016 French Open and 2017 Wimbledon champion.
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She led 5-2 in the second set, then served for the win at 5-3, but was broken when she sailed an off-balance forehand wide.
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She can punch and counterpunch with her forehand or two-handed backhand and, most surprisingly, can serve at speeds generally reserved for players with more evident leverage.
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But the best duel of the night was Djokovic's world-class defense against del Potro's world-class forehand, which remains one of the game's ultimate crowd pleasers.
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By match time, Shriver had regained her tactical calm, waiting for the Evert groundstroke to land short and allow for an approach behind her under slice forehand.
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Her kick serve and her topspin forehand bounce high, and her slice dies short, a combination that has caused discombobulating distress to opponent after opponent in Paris.
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Wawrinka, who is known for the grace and power of his one-handed backhand, was pushed wide of the doubles alley by a Tsitsipas inside-out forehand.
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But Halep managed to wriggle free and reeled off nine games in a row, focusing her attention on Pliskova's less reliable forehand and on her own strengths.
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Pavic missed an easy forehand volley at the start of the third set to drop his serve, but the Croats did not go down without a fight.
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"I hit a forehand crosscourt deep to her backhand, and she tried to float it but it slid wide," Horvath said of the 21983-3 third set.
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Andreescu changed the pace, which has become one of her trademarks, but her looping forehand landed short, and Osaka pummeled a leaping backhand winner down the line.
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The final set went all the way to 9-7; Nadal finally won when Federer hit a short forehand into the net after 4 hours 48 minutes.
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The German left-hander retained her edge in the second set and weathered a clutch of Williams winners before closing out the match with a crosscourt forehand.
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The ninth seed pressed home her advantage by winning the opening three games of the second set before serving out the match with a blistering forehand winner.
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Stationed to the right of Montreal goalie Carey Price, Rick Nash received the puck on his forehand and in one fluid move transferred it to his backhand.
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However, Giorgi cut out the misfires and dialed in her groundstrokes in the second set, striking a forehand winner in the tie-break to level the match.
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Djokovic carried his momentum into the third set and broke in the first game — bellowing a guttural roar of his own as Edmund hooked a forehand long.
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Fittingly, it was yet another lame forehand into the net that sealed the Briton's fate, as she was left to return to London to prepare for Wimbledon.
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With his weighty forehand and devastating kick serve, Sock, 193, packs a powerful one-two punch that has vaulted him into the top 25 in the rankings.
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Zverev might have beaten Nadal in Indian Wells last year if he had not missed a high forehand volley into the net when he held match point.
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Tuch deked Arizona's Darcy Kuemper with a backhand fake and then fired a forehand shot over the goaltender's left pad to give Vegas its second straight victory.
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Two points later, Isner held with a forehand passing winner on the run and let his momentum carry him directly to his sideline chair for the ensuing changeover.
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Gael Monfils of France dives for a forehand in his fourth round match against Andrey Kuznestov of Russia during day eight of the 2016 Australian Open on Jan.
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And it was Federer who blinked, double-faulting to face a break point at 11-all, then slapping a forehand into the net to cede the key break.
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Anisimova, ranked 87, might have a strong first serve and forehand, but it will be her double-fisted backhand that, should she fulfil her obvious potential, stood out.
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When Nadal stepped onto the scene as a scrappy teenage clay-court specialist, his name was practically ubiquitous with a killer lefty forehand and past-the-knee shorts.
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Federer seemed rattled and his forehand began to misfire and it was that stroke which allowed Anderson a decisive break of serve at 3-3 in the fourth.
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It was Federer who faltered at 11-11, double-faulting to hand Anderson a break point which he converted when the defending champion's weary forehand smacked the net.
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Skating around a defender on the right wing, Josi maneuvered in front of Smith and slipped a forehand by him at point-blank range for his 234th goal.
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Down 22-20 in the tie break, Williams ran off five straight points, including a forehand winner to move ahead 21-21, to take control and ultimately prevail.
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The Spaniard's concern was there when Thiem clattered a forehand into the corner in the fifth game of probably the most brutal start to any French Open final.
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The wrister was a variance of his self-described "signature" shootout move, which comprises a forehand -to-backhand deke and has been successful at times in previous seasons.
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The Czech served for the match at 5-3 in the decider but lost her composure, Mladenovic breaking back with a forehand winner before leveling for 5-5.
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Chris Evert's pinpoint forehand, struck without spin, her non-playing hand held palm aloft, was another iconic shot which guided its proponent to seven Roland Garros singles crowns.
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Yastremska's devastating forehand kept her in control in the second set and she held a 5-3 lead which gave her a chance to serve for the title.
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Schwartzman cracked a blazing forehand down the line to lead 2-0, then outpointed the Spaniard with a backhand volley to move within two points of the set.
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Against a backdrop of roars from the crowd, a fist-pumping Cornet sealed the opening set at the first time of asking when Radwanska fired a forehand wide.
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Playing the more adventurous tennis, Tsitsipas earned a set point in the opening tiebreak with a nerveless volley onto the sideline and converted when Medvedev netted a forehand.
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Venus pushed hard to break back at 5-4 but flung her racket away in despair after hammering a forehand into the net to give up match point.
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The grind of a long fortnight came to the fore as both players threw away serve, but Halep nudged 4-3 in front when Wozniacki's forehand deserted her.
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Calgary's Derek Ryan tied the game at the 3:02 mark of the middle frame with a similar goal, also splitting the defenders and scoring on his forehand.
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Djokovic got to break point and match point twice only to see Nishikori save both, but he capitalized on his third chance as Nishikori hit a forehand long.
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At 6-1 Bertens thought she had over-cooked a forehand swing volley but after Pliskova challenged the call the Hawkeye screen showed it had clipped the baseline.
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He runs around that side whenever possible to set up his laser forehand, but that leaves him in awkward positions and often too far wide off the court.
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On match point, with Nishikori serving at 6-5, 40-15, he was again at the net, coming in behind a big forehand approach to Murray's running backhand.
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The conditions were so hot and moist that at one point Wawrinka lost the grip on his racket, which went flying out of his fingers on a forehand.
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McEnroe is encouraging Raonic to serve-and-volley more, to use his chip backhand for variety and to be more aggressive from the backcourt, especially on the forehand.
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"I hit my forehand as hard as I can, and I made a lot of winners, and I served well and my backhand was O.K.," del Potro said.
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The second was of identical duration and of a similar pattern, with Williams in full flight and Lucic-Maroni surrendering quickly with a forehand slapped into the net.
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He thought he had reached match point when Thiem's rasping forehand winner was called out but the Austrian challenged and Hawkeye ruled the ball had shaved the line.
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Kerber could not get the ball in play on the first three serves, and Williams closed out her seventh Wimbledon championship with a forehand winner at the net.
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Nadal then saved three break points and navigated six deuces in the critical eighth game before holding to 5-3 with a running forehand winner down the line.
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While Bryan's reflex volleys were decisive throughout the match, it was Harrison's forehand return winner that sealed it on the Americans' second match point, silencing a raucous crowd.
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Ten minutes into their first time playing doubles together, on Friday night, Djokovic, after serving in the third game, pegged Federer in the lower back with a forehand.
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He broke in the fifth game of the first set when Borg shanked a forehand and converted a third set point with a first service winner out wide.
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"The quality of service returns and passing shots improved significantly," said Tim Mayotte, a six-time Wimbledon quarterfinalist in the '211s who was known for his forehand volley.
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Djokovic's rediscovered warrior spirit averted a crisis at 7-7 when he saved three break points, the third with an angled forehand winner past the net-charging Nadal.
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But Federer, who has won two titles since then to push his career total to 101, still has a spring in his step and sting in his forehand.
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He gets it high and heavy and deep, which keeps his opponent behind the baseline and then he gets up on the baseline and dictates with his forehand.
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When Azarenka sprinted for a cross-court forehand winner that closed a 15-stroke exchange, she took a 4-2 lead in the second set after 183 minutes.
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At 6 feet 6 inches tall, Medvedev has a solid backhand and forehand, grinding baseline play and a powerful serve, which have helped him win four ATP titles.
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He had been peppering del Potro's weaker backhand cross court with his lefty forehand, but del Potro was equal to the challenge, at least in the first set.
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But the French were more composed in the tiebreaker and earned three more match points after Dodig went long with a forehand, and Herbert produced a winning serve.
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A sharply angled cross-court backhand on match point pulled Nadal wide out of the court, and he could not sling his outstretched forehand back into the court.
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Serving for the win at 5-2, Nadal sealed the deal on his second match point with a sizzling forehand down the line that left Millman no chance.
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When Bartoli returns — either at Madison Square Garden or another tournament — at least one thing will look the same: the two-handed forehand that has defined her game.
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He was certainly pressured by distance, as well as from the spin and power of Nadal's cross-court forehand, and his own court position deep behind the baseline.
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Zidansek, however, could not keep up the resistance and Williams clinched the victory with a cross-court forehand winner to set up a meeting with China's Wang Qiang.
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He scrambled to retrieve a drop-shot and flicked a cross-court forehand winner at full-stretch to bring up set point then converted it with an ace.
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But Sharapova was not putting the ball where she wanted, especially on her forehand side, which produced 18 miscues — more than Vekic's full unforced error total of 17.
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Tsitsipas was broken once in each of the first and second sets before Raonic claimed the tiebreak comfortably and sealed their maiden meeting with a forehand crosscourt winner.
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With Ostapenko serving and down match point at 2-5, Gauff halted the rally with a shout of "Challenge!" after a deep Ostapenko forehand landed near the line.
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Kyrgios dropped to one knee shortly after his final forehand slammed into the net against Federer, and he was soon in tears, surrounded by supportive Team World compadres.
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He breezed through the next four games and hit a crosscourt forehand winner - his 42nd of the night - to end the contest in a little over 90 minutes.
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He skipped to the baseline, shadowboxed a two-handed backhand and then took a loopy forehand delivered by Sock and crushed it cross court into the far corner.
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But Rybarikova hit a running forehand from beyond the doubles alley that curled around the net pole and landed in, and she went on to win the game.
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She played patiently, moving Halep farther and farther out wide until she found her opening and then driving home decisive winners with both her backhand and her forehand.
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At 6 feet 2 inches, Rublev has a commanding serve, which sets up his forehand, giving him a lethal 1-2 punch to start off nearly every point.
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The Rangers converted a short-handed chance of their own when Anderson performed a nifty backhand-forehand deke to beat Nilsson at 4:52 of the second period.
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The second set went with serve until the seventh game when 15th seed Goffin hit a forehand long before netting a backhand to be broken and trail 3-4.
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Cilic fired a backhand winner down the line to bring up set point and then blasted a forehand past his shattered opponent to take the match into a fifth.
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Rubin, a 20-year-old baseline hustler with a big serve and powerful forehand, played above his 200th ranking and Federer doffed his cap to the Long Island native.
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He won the next five games and, although the Swiss briefly delayed the inevitable, Goffin was able to celebrate after his frustrated opponent blazed a forehand into the crowd.
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Nadal quickly restarted the engine, though, and responded by whipping a glorious forehand down the line at the start of the next game, on his way to breaking back.
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The Sharks tied it 45 seconds later as Kane took a pass from Thornton, skated in on a two-on-one break and beat Hellebuyck with a forehand shot.
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Muller always looked like having the edge with his serve-volley game and made it count with a forehand smash at the net to seal the first set tiebreak.
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"You have everywhere advantages and disadvantages," Cilic said of his size and reach after crushing Roberto Bautista-Agut in the last 16 with his pounding serve and thumping forehand.
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The rangy Russian fought back from a break down but double-faulted to give up a set point and Djokovic sealed it with a forehand winner down the line.
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Anderson was ragged thereafter and Coric pumped his fist in triumph after the seventh seed sent a forehand long to hand the Croatian the biggest win of his career.
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After punching an exquisite backhand volley to bring up three match points, the Scot hammered the winning crosscourt forehand to savor one of his finest wins at Melbourne Park.
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The fourth seed lost control at times on Court Suzanne Lenglen, but his bludgeoning forehand made the difference as he set up a meeting with local favorite Gael Monfils.
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Galchenyuk then followed with a breakaway goal, deking Fleury and then putting in a forehand shot that bounced in off the left post for his 12th of the season.
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With Federer back at net, Djokovic hit a forehand passing shot that Federer closed on but which clipped the net and shot over his outstretched racket for a winner.
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It stalled defeat only briefly, however, as Williams broke her a third time in the set and claimed the match when the Ukrainian sprayed a cross-court forehand wide.
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Paire's flair was often undone by Rubin's steady attacking to his forehand, and the Frenchman's dislike of the heat kept his body language negative in contrast to Rubin's calm.
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Halep took a 3-1 lead in the second set before Zhang stormed back and sealed victory when Halep failed to get her forehand return back after 78 minutes.
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Breaks were arriving with the frequency of London buses for the Serb and a rasping crosscourt forehand gave him another one as he romped into a 5-1 lead.
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"I was equally impressed by the velocity on his backhand and the quality of his forehand return," said Courier, who is in his eighth year as the American captain.
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"The big forehand can always be a benefit, but I think the main thing is having at least one legitimate weapon," the now-retired 37-year-old told Reuters.
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Second seed Vekic fired a stunning forehand to trim the deficit to 6-4, but Garcia responded with an ace to clinch victory after two hours and 36 minutes.
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"She has the best defensive game in the world but I knew I had the shots to hurt her — my serve and my forehand," Cibulkova added with a grin.
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At 20123-30 they traded crosscourt backhands — six in all — until Muguruza changed the course of the point, and perhaps the match, by ripping a forehand up the line.
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Sousa held match point while serving at 5-4 in the second set but Ramos-Vinolas swiped that away with a forehand down the line that the Portuguese netted.
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The turning point came at the end of the first set as Diyas converted her fourth set point of the game when Gauff sent a forehand into the net.
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Serbian Djokovic bagged the first set at the seventh opportunity and he did not look back after breaking for 22-1 in the second with a booming forehand winner.
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After one final, wildly wayward forehand return by Jack Sock, the American male population in the United States Open singles bracket was reduced to an all-too-familiar zero.
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In the span of a forehand landing long, he will become an overgrown boy who has just been ordered to shut off the television and go do his homework.
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Her whipped forehand can also cause serious damage even if it is not always pin-point accurate as she showed in her semi-final defeat to Halep in Paris.
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On a day of epic three-set battles, French Open champion Barty needed more than two hours to tame her Estonian rival, rifling a forehand winner on match point.
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Wood made a lead pass to Simmonds, who faked a shot, switched from his backhand to forehand, and lifted it over Anderson's glove 4:19 into the first period.
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Raonic held serve comfortably to win the first set 6-3 but he faced a sterner test in the second set with Del Potro delivering some quality forehand winners.
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With the score 5-5, Pegula saved two break points, the second with an ace before Parmentier converted a third with a forehand winner to go up 6-5.
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The 23-year-old Argentine, who stands 6 feet 6 inches (1.98m), deployed his barrelling serve and crushing forehand to outmatch Nadal 26-21 234-22 27-25(63).
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The last point of that tiebreaker was emblematic: Del Potro tried to open up the court with his forehand, but Djokovic read the shot beautifully and counterpunched it crosscourt.
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When Nadal made two unforced errors on his trusty forehand in the next game Djokovic was two points from victory — but Nadal slammed the door with four first serves.
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The 18-year-old Auger-Aliassime fired 30 aces and survived a match point down 5-4 in the third set when Brown sent a high forehand volley wide.
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Osaka stayed composed in the third, however, breaking Blinkova to take a 3-1 lead before sealing the first-round win with a blistering forehand that caught the line.
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As for Stephens, she fought through a wayward forehand — and several pressure-filled moments — to advance to the women's semifinals, where she will face Venus Williams or Petra Kvitova.
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A finalist at last year's Open, Pliskova capitalized on that pivotal forehand to win, 3-173, 7-5, 6-4, to avoid what would have been a crushing defeat.
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He plays assertive tennis, with big serving and a willingness to come forward, using his one-handed backhand to open up the court and his forehand to finish points.
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Stephens is also striking the right balance between defense and offense, rarely overhitting and putting ample topspin on her big forehand, which gives her plenty of margin for error.
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Schmaltz beat Buffalo goaltender Carter Hutton with a forehand shot on the glove side for the game-winner in the bottom of the second round of the shootout session.
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With Federer serving for the match, Tiafoe saved a match point and broke Federer with a daring forehand winner down the line as a stunned Federer came to net.
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Both men finished with impressive numbers: Nadal hit 26 winners, 23 of which came on his forehand, against 24 unforced errors; Djokovic hit 26 winners against 13 unforced errors.
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For Nadal or Federer to win again in New York, performance behind their second serves will matter more than their scorching forehand winners, aces or adventures to the net.
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With Los Angeles on a power play, Lecavalier received center Jeff Carter's pass from the right circle and sent a soft forehand from the right post between Gibson's legs.
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At 3-3 Edmund saved three break points, one with a sublime running forehand, but Britain's new number one coughed up a double fault to give Djokovic the break.
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A game later he belted away a forehand — his 40th winner — to reach his 38th Grand Slam quarter-final where he will face either Kei Nishikori or Benoit Paire.
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With his powerful forehand firing on all cylinders, Tsonga raced into a 3-0 lead and never looked back, closing out the victory in two hours and 47 minutes.
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The way the fifth seed overwhelmed Ramos-Vinolas on Court Philippe Chatrier with his serve and forehand working like clockwork will not have gone unnoticed in the Nadal camp.
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Tatar deked to his forehand and beat Markstrom at 1:51 to extend his goal streak to four games and his point streak to five (four goals, two assists).
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He opened a 5-3 lead then latched onto a Pouille serve to crush a forehand winner before converting his first set point with a dropshot of his own.
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Her long limbs allow her to prance around the grass, and her lethal serve-and-forehand combination has left countless opponents helpless on the other side of the net.
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Shapovalov framed a forehand at 30-30 to offer the first break point of the match and Zverev pounced with a crunching backhand return his opponent fended into the net.
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Dimitrov's potent forehand got him out of trouble several times as he forced Goffin wide or left him with no shot after landing the ball right at the Belgian's feet.
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Dominik Kahun slipped a pass to DeBrincat, who shuffled the puck from his backhand to his forehand before beating Bobrovsky for his seventh goal in as many games this season.
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Tsonga had a break point at the start of the fifth as Murray shovelled a forehand into the net, but he slipped mid-rally and Murray snuffed out the danger.
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He got the crucial break in the eighth game of the second set, however, when a Thiem forehand kissed the net cord and flew long and Djokovic levelled the match.
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In the final of the Australian Open, Mr Nadal targeted his opponent's left flank, meaning that Mr Federer could only hit his signature forehand 6% more often than his backhand.
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His signature move consists of a fake where he drags the puck and quickly transitions between his forehand and backhand, mesmerizing a goaltender into opening a space between his pads.
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Kenin missed a forehand on her first match point, and it was Williams who handed her the win when she sent a backhand long, filling the youngster's eyes with tears.
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Wang rallied from another early break in the second set but fell in the 10th game, pushing a forehand wide on set point to allow Giorgi to level the match.
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On his first match point Djokovic blazed a forehand long, then he had two fend off two break points, before another match point came and went with an unforced error.
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The 24-year-old brought up match point with a blistering forehand winner and wrapped up the contest when Thiem fired a backhand into the net, his 24th unforced error.
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Most professional women tennis players hit a forehand shot that clocks in at around 70 miles per hour, so Osaka's speed and power is her secret weapon on the court.
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Instead, they focused on adjusting small things like Isner's footwork on the forehand, the position of his outside leg on the backhand return, and his racket position on the volley.
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But there was no escape for a weary Federer who framed a forehand so badly the ball almost ended in Row Z, ending four hours 57 minutes of unforgettable drama.
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The Croatian needed a medical timeout in the second set and was then blown away by Del Potro's booming forehand in the third, surrendering the set in just 30 minutes.
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Rosol saved one match point at 3-5 and another when Wawrinka missed an easy forehand but the relieved Swiss tucked away a volley to progress to the second round.
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After a couple of exchanges of breaks in the second, Williams stole her opponent's serve again to close it out on the first match point when Sakkari's forehand sailed long.
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It has been 25 years since Courier — white ball cap and big forehand in place — beat his fellow Bollettieri Academy alumnus Andre Agassi to win the title at Roland Garros.
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He broke serve in the opening game and although Federer hit back impressively Thiem was the more aggressive player throughout, using his forehand to keep Federer on the back foot.
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Fourth seed Basilashvili won 81% of his first-serve points and struck 26 forehand winners to record his 12th straight win on Hamburg clay, which includes 10 main draw victories.
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Tuch circled in from the right side and then deked Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy and beat him with a forehand shot just inside the right post for the game-winner.
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The 24-year-old Edmund, seeded 30th, was playing the kind of dazzling tennis two-time champion Murray would have been proud of as he dominated with his clubbing forehand.
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Isner was broken serving at 3-4 in the fifth set, but he immediately broke back when Tiafoe missed an inside-out forehand approach to Isner's backhand in the net.
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The 31-year-old Russian, who entered the tournament on the back of four consecutive defeats, rallied from 3-1 down before snatching the opening set with a ferocious forehand.
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A miss-hit forehand gave Muller two more match points and this time there was no escape for Nadal as another error off his trusty weapon ballooned over the baseline.
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Two tight forehands thumped into the net to give Thiem a third match point and this time the Austrian hammered home a forehand to spark celebrations in his coaching box.
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The writing was on the wall for Berrettini in the third game when he hooked a forehand long to give Federer a break point which he converted with a smash.
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His forehand wavered at times as Cilic cleverly tried to take the pace off the ball with some floaty slices, but Zverev closed out the first set with an ace.
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At 1-1 in the second set on the first point of Kerber's service game, Williams pounded a forehand swing volley straight at Kerber when both were at the net.
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Del Potro also has to deal with a hardcourt that Open officials intentionally made slower, which will make it harder to hit his thunderous forehand and big serve past Nadal.
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Playing in his fifth straight Open final, Connors applied relentless pressure on Borg, attacking off the ground, hitting confidently into corners and making Borg reach, especially on the forehand wing.
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And finally a fourth lob kissed the baseline, leaving a weary Shriver no other option than a weak forehand floater that an advancing Evert punched back into the open court.
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"In practice, he's searching constantly for the perfect shot, the perfect forehand," former tennis champion Mats Wilander recently told The New York Times about watching Nadal prepare for a match.
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"Always Caro with the backhand was good from when she was young, but with the forehand I think she's playing more aggressive right now, more down the line," Navarro said.
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At 6-foot-403, the lithe, angular Tsitsipas has a powerful first serve, a nearly perfect one-handed backhand and a lethal forehand that he hits with pace and disguise.
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After firing off a forehand winner to clinch the second set, the fifth seed called for the trainer and lay flat on his stomach to have his buttock muscles massaged.
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