Sentence examples for sidespin from inspiring English sources

Zhang and Li hit the ball sixty miles per hour — with topspin, backspin, and occasional sidespin — yet still managed unfathomable rallies of seven or eight strokes.

It was a look that said that the Dog's confident, and on, and "Why me?" By afternoon's end, Nadal would be crashing out of the tourney, but not before three sets of all-court, full-sprint tennis, both players sweat-soaked from chasing lobs and all manner of backspin and sidespin droppers.

A bounce shot can be hard to stop, especially if it has sidespin on it.

Bill Tierney complains that his Princeton players resist learning to put sidespin on a shot.

When serving, each flashed hand signals below the table to the other, like a baseball catcher, to signal his next serve - the backspin drop shot, the sidespin curve-away or the straight ahead slam - and help determine the type of return the opponent would probably hit.

His backhand slice, a funky shot hit with vicious sidespin, slithers and dies on grass.

Dwight Davis, a St . Louisnative who went on to found the Davis Cup, added a new dimension to the serve in the 1890s, using heavy sidespin to produce a curving delivery similar to the curveball in baseball.

He may put sidespin on his shot and look like a tornado of elbows and knees running down the court, but this season, he has reached new heights.

He hits a sidespin chip backhand that skids on hard courts, and he frequently follows it with a blistering forehand.

Robinson Cano bounced the throw, which picked up sidespin off the turf as it jumped up and off Berkman's glove as he tried to scoop it.

Sidearm, sidespinning shots bounce higher, even past a goalie's shoulder.