Editing Ambidexterity (section)

===Racket sports===
In [[tennis]], a player may be able to reach balls on the backhand side more easily if they're able to use the weaker hand. An example of a player who is ambidextrous is [[Luke Jensen]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://newengland.usta.com/news/custom.sps?iType=1175&icustompageid=14191 |title=Luke Jensen Biography |website=USTA New England |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090916214901/http://www.newengland.usta.com/?sc_itemid=b85bd15b-6977-4a95-b023-fd4cf1b1dbc4 |archive-date=16 September 2009}}</ref> Due to a physical advantage on the space of time needed when matching the ball with the racket simultaneously with tagging the opponent's movement, being laterality-crossed on eyedness with handedness may be a decisive factor for outstanding performance, since the hand which strikes the ball can do it while the overriding eye, matching with this hand, can be tagging the opponent's movement-decisions.<ref name="indiana">Jones dialnet Unirioja [https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=4780310 Laterality and sports performance/Lateralidad y Rendimiento Deportivo] {{cite journal|last1=Bache|first1=M.A.B.|last2=Naranjo|first2=J.|year=2014|title=Laterality and sports performance|journal=Arch. Med. Dep.|volume=31|issue=161|pages=200–204|issn=0212-8799}} Retrieved 9 November 2012.</ref> Such have the case of [[Rafael Nadal]] who uses his right hand for writing, but plays tennis with left. There are many players who are naturally right handed, but play lefty and vice versa. [[Evgenia Kulikovskaya]] is also an ambidextrous player, Kulikovskaya played with two forehands and no backhand, switching her racket hand depending on where the ball was coming. [[Jan-Michael Gambill]] is the opposite case of Kulikovskaya, since he played with a two-handed forehand and backhand, although he served with his right hand. Other famous examples of a two-handed forehand are [[Fabrice Santoro]] and [[Monica Seles]]. Seles' playing style was unusual in that she hit with two hands on both sides and, at the same time, always kept her (dominant) left hand at the base of her racket. This meant that she hit her forehand cross-handed. [[Maria Sharapova]] is also known to be ambidextrous.{{citation needed|date=October 2016}} Cheong-eui Kim is a truly ambidextrous player with no backhand, and can serve left-handed as well as right-handed.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/8iosXeyBb9U Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200305114643/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iosXeyBb9U&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Citation|last=Stefan Dimov|title=Tennis pro has TWO FOREHANDS and serves (lefty and righty)|date=2017-08-10|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iosXeyBb9U|access-date=2018-05-22}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Some [[table tennis]] players have used their ability to hit with their non-dominant hand to return balls out of reach of their dominant hand's backhand,<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/239JKqz4YfY Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819232624/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=239JKqz4YfY&feature=relmfu&rl=yes&hl=en&gl=US&client=mv-google&guid= Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=239JKqz4YfY| title = Top 10 Hand Switch Shots | website=[[YouTube]]| date = 13 August 2013 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> most notably [[Timo Boll]], a former world #1 player.

Although it is quite uncommon, in [[badminton]], ambidextrous players are able to switch the racquet between their hands, often to get to the awkward backhand corner quickly. As badminton can be a very fast sport at professional levels of play, players might not have time to switch the racquet, as this disrupts their reaction time.{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}