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Seven Ways of Looking at Dominic Thiem’s Backhand

Check out my new book Tennis Players as Works of Art with artwork from 45 artists. After Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” Artist Bio: ItchiRAE (Ricardo Acosta) is a popular digital artist from La Paz, Bolivia who specializes in sport graphics. You can check out his fantastical works on tennis players here or on instagram. You can also […]

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Simona Halep: Three Easy-but-Difficult, Safe-but-Risky, Calculated-but-Mindless Backhands

Check out my new book Tennis Players as Works of Art with artwork from 45 artists. Situation: Having lost the first set, Simona is serving at 4-4 (15-15) in the second set against Sloane Stephens in the 2018 French Open Final. Sloane floats a weak return just past the service line, so Simona steps in and smacks an […]

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The Dao of Ken Rosewall’s Backhand

This is an excerpt from my new book Tennis Players as Works of Art with artwork from 45 artists. The older ones who knew would stop and watch. The younger ones have almost forgotten. Rosewall’s slice backhand as repeatable, as simple, as breath itself. If you could hit it at 22, you could hit it at 70, […]

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Novak Djokovic

Click here for book description or to purchase Tennis Players as Works of Art with artwork from 45 artists. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Eleven. Twelve. Thirteen. Fourteen.  Fifteen. Sixteen. Seventeen. Early in his career, the most irritating ball bounce in the history of tennis. Changed that. Early in his […]