Serve and volley

The serve- and-volley game is an offensive strategy game in tennis, which was especially popular in the 1980s and 1990s. Of the impacting player's goal here is to get the opponent with a hard and placed in charge distress and then immediately advance to the grid. The often inaccurate return is then answered by impacting player directly with a volley - to decide the optimum case the rally directly for themselves. The serve-and - volley game proved especially on fast court surfaces, on which the velocity of the incident ball is hardly slowed down.

It is a dynamic game strategy, which was developed by players such as John McEnroe, Stefan Edberg, Boris Becker and Pete Sampras to perfection. But already in the 1960s and 1970s, this offensive tennis was practiced especially by Australian tennis players like Rod Laver and John Newcombe or Arthur Ashe (USA).

Critics of the system complain about the fact that in the matches hardly game flow is accomplished. The rallies are very short and therefore give less enthusiasm among the crowd of spectators as embattled baseline duels. This criticism solidified over the years. In particular, due to changes in the brake pads and balls that have made ​​the game slower, the serve- and-volley game is no longer as effective as in the 1980s and 90s. Pure serve-and - volley specialists today there are world-class tennis no longer - even at Wimbledon have baseline duels on the agenda.

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