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单词 serve-and-volley
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Definition of serve-and-volley in English:

serve-and-volley

adjective
Tennis
  • Denoting a style of play in which the server moves close to the net after serving, ready to play an attacking volley off the service return.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He played a masterful grass-court match against Agassi, mixing his acrobatic serve-and-volley game with off-speed shots.
    • Her serve-and-volley game made an immediate impression.
    • One of the saddest inevitabilities in tennis is that in a few years, coaches will look at tapes of this pure and agile serve-and-volley player and realise they've made such an art extinct.
    • But the five-time Wimbledon champion, in reality, was a natural baseliner who consciously adapted to the serve-and-volley style to win on grass.
    • But newer rackets have given enough of an advantage to the return of serve that virtually no one plays the serve-and-volley game anymore.

Derivatives

  • serve-and-volleyer

  • noun
    Tennis
    • And, although McEnroe and Edberg - genuine serve-and-volleyers in every sense of the tradition - came painfully close to winning in Paris, a fundamental axiom still prevails.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He is one of the few remaining natural serve-and-volleyers on the men's tour.
      • Agassi is the buffed baseliner and Sampras the athletic serve-and-volleyer.
      • The Australian Open is widely considered to be the best of the four grand slam tournaments, and one reason is that it's played on a fast hardcourt surface that evenly matches both groundstrokers and serve-and-volleyers.
      • If you had only listened to Henman being interviewed and never seen him play, you could not possibly guess that he can be an exciting player to watch, an attacking serve-and-volleyer who charges the net with speed and aggression.
 
 

Definition of serve-and-volley in US English:

serve-and-volley

adjectiveˌsərvənˈvälēˌsərvənˈvɑli
Tennis
  • attributive Denoting a style of play in which the server moves close to the net after serving, ready to play an attacking volley off the return.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But the five-time Wimbledon champion, in reality, was a natural baseliner who consciously adapted to the serve-and-volley style to win on grass.
    • But newer rackets have given enough of an advantage to the return of serve that virtually no one plays the serve-and-volley game anymore.
    • Her serve-and-volley game made an immediate impression.
    • He played a masterful grass-court match against Agassi, mixing his acrobatic serve-and-volley game with off-speed shots.
    • One of the saddest inevitabilities in tennis is that in a few years, coaches will look at tapes of this pure and agile serve-and-volley player and realise they've made such an art extinct.
 
 
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