For example, one ground stroke may use topspin and another underspin.

Especially on the backhand, he could hit sharp underspin angles as well.

The ball should bounce low and near the net, sometimes with underspin (or backspin).

He gets more underspin for control."

She models her underspin serve after her.

When he holds the ball with his index and middle fingers across the seams, an underspin is produced that causes the ball to rise.

His four-seam fastball gave batters the impression of rising as it approached them, due to underspin.

There must be sufficient tension in the wrist and fingers to impart a good helping of backspin or underspin.

And not just because of his strange underspin two-handed forehand and his vacation shirt.

She could hit her backhand flat, with heavy topspin, or slice [underspin].

It was hard-hit and had this underspin that carried and carried and carried.

Mirnyi played a lethal chip-and-charge game, lasering low-skimming underspin returns and then following them up to the net.

See backspin, topspin, and underspin.

Occasionally, Djokovic employs a well-disguised backhand underspin drop shot and sliced backhand.

Weisman liked the analysis Torre offered, that O'Neill was now hitting with underspin, not overspin.

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Ken Rosewall, a one-handed backhand, used a tremendously accurate slice backhand with underspin through the 1950s and 1960s.

While limited "by what the chair will allow," she added, players can become skilled in such techniques as underspin and topspin, the drop shot and the lob.

After a brief comeback by the 20-year-old Bulgarian, Rubin closed out the match when Maleeva's nervy forehand underspin drop shot failed to clear the net.

Television will never be able to reproduce this quality of the live game-the thin sizzling sound of an underspin backhand that actually sets the summer air vibrating.

Julius Heldman pointed out, "He is competent on low balls, handling them with underspin for control, but he will cream any ball at waist level or higher."

At one point, López, after trading a series of hammering topspin crosscourt forehands with Ferrero, suddenly changed it up with an underspin backhand.

The back spin or underspin will cause the ball to hurry on at great pace with very little bounce, though this may be harder to achieve on softer wickets.

It's guys like Santoro, the off-speed, changeup, fleet-footed backboard with the cunning head games and underspin two-fisted forehand, who have driven Federer to distraction in the past.

In racquet sports, backspin (also known as slice or underspin), is a shot such that the ball rotates backwards (as though rolling back towards the player) after it is hit.