Pakistan, Sept. 8 -- Ben Shelton's run to the US Open quarter-finals dealt a blow to tennis traditionalists on Sunday after his win over Stefanos Tsitsipas left the men's draw without a one-handed backhand and ended a 149-year Grand Slam streak.

The elegant stroke has steadily yielded ground to the two-handed shot in the modern power game and at least one practitioner had reached the men's singles semi-final at a major each year since Wimbledon in 1877 until the streak ended in New York.

Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka were the modern standard-bearers of the shot, but they followed a lineage that included John McEnroe and Ivan Lendl in the 1980s, and Pete Sampras, Stefan Edberg and Gustavo Kuerten in the 1990s.

Shelton also accounted f...