Sentence examples for return serves from inspiring English sources

"It's absolutely amazing how they return first serve," said Agbayani, talking about men who regularly return serves of 125 miles an hour.

With her ability to return serves, she was able to stand inside the baseline and unexpectedly send the balls back at rocket speed, using the two-handed ground strokes her father recommended after seeing Monica Seles defeat Steffi Graf in the 1992 French Open final.

Haase and Sijsling found a momentary weakness: Bob Bryan was standing in the doubles alley to return serves, so they punched three aces up the T in the first eight games.

In other words, while he can have a sense of humor about the ridiculousness of trying to return serves at that speed, he also has a plan to do it.

Re-establishing where things left off last year isn't unusual in a season-opener, but a lot of the exposition in "SOA's" return serves as a reminder of how much of Season 4 was an exercise in wheel-spinning and the deployment of cliffhangers that went nowhere.

Novak Djokovic stretches to return serve.

For Nadal, a key will be his ability to return serve.

But the most striking difference in the match was Sijsling's superior ability to return serve.

Normally, when he stands to return serve, he shuffles his feet before pouncing on the ball.

Nadal mainly stood way back in the court to return serve, especially in the deuce court where he is most vulnerable to the wide serve to his backhand.

But the surprise is that in the 2005 final, Nadal was several feet closer to the baseline to return serve than at Roland Garros this year.