{"id":72597,"date":"2024-08-27T14:31:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T18:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=72597"},"modified":"2024-08-27T15:18:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T19:18:53","slug":"watch-karolina-muchova-hits-shot-behind-her-back-wins-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/08\/27\/watch-karolina-muchova-hits-shot-behind-her-back-wins-point\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Karolina Muchova Hits Shot Behind Her Back, Wins Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/french-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">French Open<\/a> runner-up Karolina Muchova returned from<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/12\/28\/karolina-muchova-withdraws-2024-australian-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"> a long injury<\/a> during the grass-court season. The Czech&#8217;s shot-making and complete game were severely missed during her time on the sidelines. Muchova won her first-round match at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">US Open<\/a> 6-3 7-5 against a gritty and determined Katie Volynets. She showed her unique talent during that contest with an incredible shot during the first set.<\/p>\n<h2>Karolina Muchova Hits Shot Behind Her Back, Wins Point<\/h2>\n<p>Muchova&#8217;s moment that left the crowd gasping in amazement happened at 4-1 40-15 in her favor when Volynets was serving. The American struck a good serve out wide, getting a short return from her opponent. Volynets then hit a forehand into the open space, and Muchova could only put her next shot into the air, leaving a smash for the home favorite to win the point. The Czech ran past Volynets&#8217; smash while trying to get back into position, looking doomed in the rally.<\/p>\n<p>However, Muchova instinctively hit a lob from behind her back. Making a connection with that shot was impressive enough, but her shot landed right on the baseline. Volynets left Muchova a smash with her next shot, which the French Open finalist duly put away to win the point.<\/p>\n<p>Very few players could have executed a shot like that. It may only be Day 2 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/us-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">US Open<\/a>, but it is already a contender for the best shot of the tournament. Karolina Muchova has a chance to entertain the fans further after progressing to the next round.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">KAROLINA MUCHOVA WITH THE SHOT OF THE YEAR!! \ud83e\udd2f <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GnSqWWwbxn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/GnSqWWwbxn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1828459066626044039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Susan Mullane-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year&#8217;s French Open runner-up Karolina Muchova returned from a long injury during the grass-court season. The Czech&#8217;s shot-making and complete game were severely missed during her time on the sidelines. Muchova won her first-round match at the US Open 6-3 7-5 against a gritty and determined Katie Volynets. She showed her unique talent during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4708,"featured_media":57259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2,9,4],"tags":[42240,3716,8293],"class_list":["post-72597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-open","category-featured","category-news","category-wta","tag-2024-us-open","tag-karolina-muchova","tag-katie-volynets"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}