The one-handed backhand does not appear in the men's 'top-10' for the first time since 1973. Carla Suárez is one of the latest exponents of a maneuver as beautiful as it is complex.

“It entails a series of risks that not many are willing to take, because technically you have to be very good; If you are not, like Tsitsipas, you end up penalizing,” says the Barcelona native. Although a small handful of stylists survive, they have already become an absolute exception that rows against the current.