In tennis, the one-handed backhand’s unwanted Grand Slam milestone is natural selection‎

Last Sunday at the U.S. Open, the longest streak in Grand Slam tennis history ended. For the first time ever, going all the way back to 1877, a year will pass without a player with a single-handed backhand reaching a major semifinal. Stefanos Tsitsipas was the last man or woman with the stroke standing in New York, but he was well beaten by Ben Shelton in the fourth round. Their match offered a neat summation of why, in Tsitsipas’ own words, players with single-handed backhands are “like dinosau