The ATP Two Handed Backhand: The Forward Swing

[BrianGordon]

Yes that is what I meant. Again thanks for the response. Your knowledge is a vast resource to all of us.

... waiting for the last question bobbyswift - just kidding :-) Thanks for your depth of thought, great questions and kind words!

[kenh]

This is a great article. Both Brian Gordon and John Yandell have been great for the game. This line in one of the last paragraphs ...then drives it during the torso rotation." , made be think of Jimmy Connors who did this extremely well. So I went back and looked at Connors on the stroke archives here and it appears to me he may have been the first ATP backhand. In his backswing his arms are considerably distant from his body to the hitting side and he has a small flip with his racquet head. Now when i say Connors first, I did not see Bromwich play nor have I seen tapes of him playing.