Sentence examples for baseline tennis from inspiring English sources

Cat-and-mouse baseline tennis follows.

Carlsen, he says, could be compared to Bjorn Borg – an intimidatingly strong baseline tennis player who wears opponents down by the force of relentless, faultless rallies.

Murray replied with a surge of irresistibly forceful baseline tennis, to go to 5-4 and two sets up and just a service game away from the championship.

It's just that Sharapova's brand of bang, boom baseline tennis is bigger in just about every way.

But is grueling, winner-thwarting baseline tennis — no matter how athletically impressive — the way forward, particularly when the megastars are gone?

Janowicz defeated Lukasz Kubot, 7-5, 6-4, 6-4, in an all-Polish quarterfinal on Wednesday with a stunning display of power baseline tennis and monster serving.

With her sister Venus in attendance, she played 53 minutes of inside-the-baseline tennis in the brilliant sunshine for a 6-2, 6-1 victory over the German veteran Barbara Rittner.

JOEL LESKO, Ashland, Ore., posted on nytimes.com There is too negative an undertone in this article about how changes have "slowed down" the game and made power-baseline tennis, à la Lendl, the norm.

When her semifinal match teetered on the verge of possible defeat late in the second and third sets, Townsend fell back on her old-school all-court game of chips and forward movement, quite a contrast to the typical style of play in this era of one-dimensional baseline power tennis.

Providence pushed Beatrice Capra deep into the first week of the United States Open and a position as untenable as the space between the service line and baseline on the tennis court.

20 For the 15 m COD sprint assessment, markers were set at 0, 5 and 10 m from the extended baseline alongside the tennis court.