Most of those players who preceded Budge at the top of tennis were better off the forehand, but his backhand was the first of its kind. When compared with his rivals, he took his biggest edge with the quality of his volley making on average 2.5 times more points with that shot than them. Edberg first came to the tennis world's attention as a junior player. The Swede at Wimbledon: Stefan Edberg was smooth as silk on the lawns. Stay Rackonnected and learn more about sports The extra time from using a slower serve gave Edberg more time to get to the net, where he used his quick feet and athleticism to gain control of the point. Edberg coached Federer in 2014-15 and is among the few who had the best seats to witness the making of RF 2.0.

SR=strike rate (events won/competed) 1 professional tennis player (in both singles and doubles). In 1996, Edberg reached the finals of Queens Club but lost the match to Boris Becker. His favorite way to come in was the serve & volley (54% of his total points won) but he was also excellent with the return volley (6% of his total points won). His Grand Slam accomplishment stands right at the top of tennis history along with Rod Laver's Gran Slam-sweeping feats.When he captured the Grand Slam in 1938—the first player ever to realize that feat—Budge had it all, but the single biggest strength in his game was his majestic backhand. It was almost as if the feisty American was actually reaching out with those fists to pummel his opponents even while striking the ball.That's right, childish. Men's tennis has a long history of great backhands peppering the sport. Edberg on Edberg "Serve-and-volley sort of came around at 15 years of age. The 1993 Australian Open final was Edberg's last Grand Slam singles final appearance.

The backhand was one of them. "After relating this seminal event in tennis groundstroke history, Deford offered his own opinion. At 15, I changed from a two-handed backhand to a one-handed backhand and obviously playing on the clay was tough. The former world No. His aggressiveness off that side was ground breaking in many ways. "Longtime tennis analyst Steve Flink is taken with Ken Rosewall's backhand.

He opted for a high first serve percentage (64%) and when that first serve was in, 27% of the time it was unreturned (below average). (W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (NH) not held. Stefan Edberg is a retired tennis player from Sweden, ... Edberg's groundstrokes had a fair amount of topspin on them, although he could flatten his backhand very easily when he got a short ball. Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) world No. In his case, he was more a volleyer than a server. Edberg is noted as the finest serve-and-volley player of his era and arguably the greatest of all-time. Artists like Before them, though, were five players whose talents ran the gamut of the backhand.Unlike the black-and-white assessments of wins and losses, a set of criteria must be chosen here to rate these professionals' efforts. Edberg's volleying skills were the very best and could ea… 69% of his points were won at the net (with or without a volley to play) and this result stand much above the general average of the ATP players.

Sadly, that never quite was the case on the hard courts of New York, perhaps because he didn't have the time for that beautiful backswing.Not that he would have changed a thing about the shot. The American's backhand was not only great, but "one of the three or four best shots in tennis history. Using the backhand slice a lot, Stefan Edberg was nothing but a Tempo player. He hit 13 other unreturnable serves to the Courier backhand and four more to the forehand side. In recognition of this achievement, ATP renamed the award as the ‘Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship award’ in 1996.

I had a coach who had me do a lot of these drills, which I enjoyed.