The Leyton Hewitt celebratory 'lawnmower starting' pose.

TENNIS STROKES pictures Players A to M (Agassi, Hewitt, McEnroe, ...) (Pictures of Federer's strokes are on a 'parent' tennis strokes web page.)

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! Note !
Higher-resolution photos may be added
(or substituted), if I ever find time to
find better pictures --- which may be never.

INTRODUCTION: This is a page of non-Federer tennis-stroke pictures --- to compare with Federer strokes on a 'parent' web page. As mentioned on that other page ... For comparison, I provide photos of other players here --- seen as they are striking forehands and backhands. You will see that almost all other players (with the exception of Tim Henman on his backhands, and a couple of other players noted below) are looking more or less in front of their racket as the ball approaches, makes contact with, and leaves their racket. Rafael Nadal seems to come close to Roger Federer's consistency, on both eye-following-ball-to-strings and momentary-freezing-of-head-at-contact ... on both backhands and forehands. Guillermo Canas (Can-yas) also shows good consistency in many photos. Bjorn Borg, Richard Krajicek, and Steffi Graf also seem to do a good job of it, but I need more photos to verify consistency. The photos of Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras indicate a lack of consistency in eyes following the ball to the strings. In the several pictures I found of Carlos Moya, he seems to be looking toward the other end of the court (toward the opponent) as he strikes the ball ... consistently, both on backhands and forehands. When considering Federer's contemporaries, one has to wonder if a player like Moya or Juan Carlos Ferrero or Radek Stepanek, whose games seem to be past their peak (circa 2007) --- or "contenders" like Andy Roddick or Marat Safin --- would significantly improve their game if they could emulate the Federer eye-on-ball-up-to-ball-contact-then-freeze-head method. Again ... I hope you find these pictures educational. Enjoy.

How these photos are presented: You can scroll down this page to see the various photos. The pictures below are presented so that their width is proportional to the width of the browser window. One consequence of this is that you can change the size of the images by changing the width of your browser window. Each image is a link. You can click on the link to see the image at its 'native' size in a separate window (or tab). (Unfortunately, many of these images were collected around 2007 when images on the web were rather low resolution --- often less than 600 pixels wide or high. I have generally avoided using images less than 200 pixels wide or high because they are just too-low in resolution and do not scale up well.) See the bottom of this page for some instructions on making side-by-side comparisons of web page photos. For some players, the photo(s) I have are mainly place-holders --- to remind me to try to find more and better photos. For these tennis-strokes pages, I like to find pictures that show the ball, the racket, and the player's head ... all in the picture at that instant. Most of these photos are of players who were playing in the decade of 1997 to 2007 --- with some photos of players in previous decades --- players such as Rod Laver, Roy Emerson, and Don Budge. I may never get back to this page to add more recent players --- and I may not get back to this page to add better photos for the players listed below --- but, to find more photos, you can try WEB SEARCH links for the players that are listed down this page --- and try more general search links at the bottom of this page.

CLICK on any of the images to see
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at its 'native' size.

NON-FEDERER photos :
(in alphabetical order by last name)

Agassi, Andre - backhands :

           
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'images tennis stroke agassi backhand'

Agassi, Andre - forehands :

           
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'images tennis stroke agassi forebackhand'

Ancic, Mario :

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'images tennis strokes mario ancic'

Baghdatis, Marcos :

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'images tennis strokes baghdatis'

Becker, Benjamin :

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'images tennis strokes benjamin becker'

Becker, Boris :

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'images tennis strokes boris becker'

Bjorkman, Jonas :

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'images tennis strokes jonas bjorkman'

Blake, James :

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'images tennis strokes james blake'

Blanco, Galo :

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'images tennis strokes galo blanco'

Borg, Bjorn :

           
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'images tennis strokes bjorn borg'

Budge, Don :

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'images tennis strokes don budge'

Canas, Guillermo - backhands :

           
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'images tennis strokes guillermo canas backhand'

Canas, Guillermo - forehands :

           
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'images tennis strokes guillermo canas forehand'

Capriati, Jennifer :

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'images tennis strokes jennifer capriati'

Cash, Pat :

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'images tennis strokes pat cash'

Clement, Arnaud :

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'images tennis strokes arnaud clement'

Clijsters, Kim :

           
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'images tennis strokes kim clijsters'

Connors, Jimmy :

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'images tennis strokes jimmy connors'

Cooper, Ashley :

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'images tennis strokes ashley cooper'

Coria, Guillermo :

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'images tennis strokes guillermo coria'

Costa, Albert :

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'images tennis strokes albert costa'

Courier, Jim :

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'images tennis strokes jim courier'

Davydenko, Nikolai :

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Davenport, Lindsay :

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Dementieva, Elena :

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Dent, Taylor :

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Edberg, Stefan :

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Emerson, Roy :

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'images tennis strokes roy emerson'

Evert, Chris :

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Ferrer, David :

           
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'images tennis strokes david ferrer'

Ferrero, Juan-Carlos :

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Fish, Mardy :

           
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'images tennis strokes mardy fish'

Gaudio, Gaston :

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Ginepri, Robby :

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Gonzales, Fernando :

           
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'images tennis strokes fernando gonzales'

Graf, Steffi :

           
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'images tennis strokes steffi graf'

Grosjean, Sebastien :

           
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'images tennis strokes sebatien grosjean'

Henin, Justine :

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'images tennis strokes justine henin'

Henman, Tim :

           
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Hewitt, Leyton :

           
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'images tennis strokes leyton hewitt'

Hingis, Martina :

           
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'images tennis strokes martina hingis'

Hoad, Lew :

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'images tennis strokes lew hoad'

Ivanisevic, Goran :

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'images tennis strokes goran ivanisevic'

Jenkins, Scoville :

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Kafelnikov, Yevgeny :

     
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'images tennis strokes yevgeny kafelnikov'

Kendrick, Robert :

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'images tennis strokes robert kendrick'

Kiefer, Nicolas :

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'images tennis strokes nicolas kiefer'

King, Billie Jean :

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'images tennis strokes billie jean king'

Koukalova, Klara :

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'images tennis strokes klara koukalova'

Kournikova, Anna :

           
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'images tennis strokes anna kournikova'

Krajicek, Richard :

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'images tennis strokes richard krajicek'

Kuerten, Gustavo :

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Laver, Rod :

           
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'images tennis strokes rod laver'

Leconte, Henri :

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Lendl, Ivan :

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Ljubicic, Ivan :

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Mahut, Nicolas :

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Malisse, Xavier :

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'images tennis strokes xavier malisse'

Martinez, Conchita :

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'images tennis strokes conchita martinez'

Mattek, Bethanie :

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Mauresmo, Amelie :

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'images tennis strokes amelie mauresmo'

McEnroe, John :

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McEnroe, Patrick :

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Melzer, Jurgen :

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Mirza, Sania :

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'images tennis strokes sania mirza'

Molik, Alicia :

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'images tennis strokes alicia molik'

Moya, Carlos :

           
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'images tennis strokes carlos moya'

Murray, Andy :

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'images tennis strokes andy murray'

Muster, Thomas :

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'images tennis strokes thomas muster'

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How to compare photos side-by-side : If you want to compare any two photos, you can right-click on a photo image and, from the menu that pops up, choose an option to open the image in a separate window. (This works in most 'desktop and laptop computer' web browsers.) You can do this for a couple of images (photos) and re-size the resulting windows so that they can both be seen on the screen. The windows can then be brought side by side for comparison. Then close those windows to get back to this window of images.

Some LINKS to find more TENNIS STROKES pics and info --- on the web: Try a WEB SEARCH on keywords 'images tennis strokes' Try a WEB SEARCH on keywords 'images tennis forehand' Try a WEB SEARCH on keywords 'images tennis backhand' Try a WEB SEARCH on keywords 'images tennis serve' Try a WEB SEARCH on keywords 'images tennis volley' Try a WEB SEARCH on keywords 'images tennis overhead' For more general information on tennis, try Wikipedia pages such as Wikipedia - 'Tennis' page Wikipedia - 'Tennis shots' page and follow links from those pages.

Bottom of this Tennis Strokes (A to M, non-Federer) page. To return to a previously visited web page location, click on the Back button of your web browser, a sufficient number of times. OR, use the History-list option of your web browser. OR ... < Go to Top of Page, above. > OR ... < Go to the N-to-Z-player strokes-page > OR ... < Go to the Main strokes-page (Federer pics) > Or you can scroll up to the top of this page. Page history: Page was created 2007 Feb 15. Page was changed 2007 Sep 19. (Some re-formatting.) Page was changed 2020 Sep 16. (Added css and javascript to try to handle text-size for smartphones, esp. in portrait orientation. Specified the width of some images in proportion to the width of the browser window. Added some Wikipedia and WEB SEARCH links.) Page was changed 2020 Sep 24. (Changed image display from small, fixed-size thumbnails in table-cells to images of changeable size, scaled to the width of the window. Removed all the table cells including their borders.)