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- noun Plural form of
forehand .
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Examples
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Her tennis game, filled with flat forehands and backhands, looks better-built for hard courts, rather than the slow, red clay of Paris.
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With Federer blasting forehands, Nadal held his ground with his biting lefty forehands, deft touch around the net and bullet crosscourt backhands.
Once in running for best ever, now Federer can't beat Nadal 2009
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The fifth-set end-game started with Djokovic serving at 3-4 and stringing together an uncharacteristically bad game, getting broken at love on two mishit forehands, a framer of Federer's that set up a winner and a double fault on a second serve that missed the line by about a foot.
Novak Djokovic Eliminates Roger Federer In U.S. Open Semifinals 2011
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Serving while ahead 4-2, Li missed four forehands in one game to get broken for the only time all match.
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"He's got a huge serve and can hit big forehands and is a little bit erratic and doesn't give you much rhythm," Murray said.
Murray charges through to U.S. Open quarters Reuters 2011
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The Swiss will look for forehands and try to lure del Potro off the baseline.
Federer enters men's semifinals near elusive French Open title 2009
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Her tennis game, filled with flat forehands and backhands, looks better-built for hard courts, rather than the slow, red clay of Paris.
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Serving while ahead 4-2, Li missed four forehands in one game to get broken for the only time all match.
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The 6-6 Argentine prefers to bash away from the baseline and change directions, which means Federer should get looks at forehands that will allow him to break open points.
Federer enters men's semifinals near elusive French Open title 2009
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"He's got a huge serve and can hit big forehands and is a little bit erratic and doesn't give you much rhythm," Murray said.
Murray charges through to U.S. Open quarters Reuters 2011
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