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A shift in the past 15 years has, arguably, transformed the two-hander into the most important live stroke in tennis.

Eight years ago, Martina Navratilova summed up the problem with the one-handed backhand in today’s game: “It practically takes a genius to hit [one],” she said. The great Czech-American champion used ...