TENNIS STROKES pictures Players N to Z (Nadal, Nalbandian, Roddick, Sampras, Sharapova, Williams, ...) (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' Tennis Strokes 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 in paragraphs 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. 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. Dimitri Tursunov appears to be fairly consistent in keeping his eyes on the ball on his forehand strokes --- and not as consistent on his backhand strokes. 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 possible "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 : 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 Bill Tilden, Ken Rosewall, and Frank Sedgman. 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
the image in a separate window (or tab)
at its 'native' size.

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

Nadal, Rafael - backhands :

           
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'images tennis strokes rafael nadal backhand'

Nadal, Rafael - forehands :

           
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'images tennis strokes rafael nadal forehand'

Nalbandian, David :

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'images tennis strokes david nalbandian'

Navratilova, Martina :

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'images tennis strokes martina navratilova'

Newcombe, John :

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'images tennis strokes john newcombe'

Norman, Magnus :

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'images tennis strokes magnus norman'

Novak, Jiri :

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'images tennis strokes jiri novak'

Parker, Frank :

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'images tennis strokes frank parker'

Pavel, Andrei :

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'images tennis strokes andrei pavel'

Perry, Fred :

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'images tennis strokes fred perry'

Pierce, Mary :

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'images tennis strokes mary pierce'

Rafter, Patrick :

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'images tennis strokes patrick rafter'

Rios, Marcelo :

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'images tennis strokes marcelo rios'

Roddick, Andy - backhands :

           
Row B1

Row B2

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'images tennis strokes andy roddick backhand'

Roddick, Andy - forehands :

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'images tennis strokes andy roddick forehand'

Rosewall, Ken :

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'images tennis strokes ken rosewall'

Rusedski, Greg :

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'images tennis strokes greg rusedski'

Safin, Marat - backhands :

           
Row B1

Row B2

           
Row B3

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'images tennis backhands marat safin'

Safin, Marat - forehands :

           
Row F1

Row F2

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'images tennis forehands marat safin'

Sampras, Pete - backhands :

           
Row B1

           
Row B2

           
Row B3

           
Row B4

           
Row B5

Row B6

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'images tennis strokes pete sampras backhand'

Sampras, Pete - forehands :

           
Row F1

           
Row F2

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'images tennis strokes pete sampras forehand'

Sanchez, Arantxa :

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'images tennis strokes arantxa sanchez'

Santana, Manuel :

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'images tennis strokes manuel santana'

Sedgman, Frank :

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'images tennis strokes frank sedgman'

Schuttler, Rainer :

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'images tennis strokes rainer schuttler'

Seles, Monica :

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'images tennis strokes monica seles'

Sharapova, Maria :

Sharapova with her father

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'images tennis strokes maria sharapova'

Shaughnessy, Meghann :

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'images tennis strokes meghann shaughnessy'

Spadea, Vince :

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'images tennis strokes vince spadea'

Srichaphan, Paradorn :

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'images tennis strokes paradorn srichaphan'

Stepanek, Radek :

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'images tennis strokes radek stepanek'

Sweeting, Ryan :

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'images tennis strokes ryan sweeting'

Tilden, Bill :

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'images tennis strokes bill tilden'

Tursunov, Dmitry - backhands :

           
Row B1

Row B2

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'images tennis strokes dmitry trusunov backhand'

Tursunov, Dmitry - forehands :

           
Row F1

           
Row F2

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'images tennis strokes dmitry trusunov forehand'

Tursunov hugged by Russian President Boris Yeltsin

Vahaly, Brian :

           
Row S1

           
Row S2

(These are low-resolution, i.e. poor, non-commercial, versions of Getty images.)

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'images tennis strokes bian vahaly'

Verdasco, Fernando :

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'images tennis strokes fernando verdasco'

Vilas, Guillermo :

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'images tennis strokes guillermo vilas'

Wilander, Mats :

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'images tennis strokes mats wilander'

Williams, Serena :

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'images tennis strokes serena williams'

Williams, Venus :

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'images tennis strokes venus williams'

Woodbridge, Todd :

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'images tennis strokes todd woodbridge'

Youzhny, Mikhail :

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'images tennis strokes mikhail youzhny'

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 these windows to get back to this window of many 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 (N-to-Z players) 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 A-to-M-player strokes-page (non-Federer) > OR ... < Go to the Main strokes page (Federer pics) > Page history: Page was created 2007 Feb 15. Page was changed 2007 Sep 19. (Some re-formatting.) Page was changed 2020 Sep 17. (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 23. (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.)