Nadal didn’t hit. He heaved. He didn’t run—he charged. He hit a semi-Western grip forehand with a wild spin, finishing with a lasso-like flourish, and his backhand was a deep, grunting scoop.

Nadal uses a semi-western forehand grip. Yandell has used high-speed cameras to study how tennis balls rotate after being hit. "From .85 to 1.2 seconds. In that time, the ball turns over 50 or 60 ...

Jack Draper's ready to fire more forehand bullets as he channels Rafael Nadal at the French Open - but his next opponent is riding high after a Las Vegas bender ...

Nadal proved that running around your backhand to get to your forehand was a viable move, all but inventing a tactic that has come to dominate modern men’s tennis.

For the Spanish tennis star, greatness sports a headband, grips a left-handed forehand, and has 14 titles at Roland Garros.

Rafael Nadal ends an era in which he unleashed one of sport’s greatest weapons - Nadal’s forehand left many opponents watching on in staggered disbelief.

When Rafael Nadal retires from professional tennis next month, the sport will lose a few things. It will lose a powerful athlete whose explosions on the court were always about sending tennis ball ...

The Pole, who strikes a Nadalesque forehand (using a western grip in contrast to Nadal's semi-western) is a huge admirer of Le Empereur.