Sentence examples for tentative serves from inspiring English sources

Sharapova started with two double faults, then Pennetta pounced on her next two tentative serves.

Right now, her mental state on big points is shaky, and her tentative serve has yet to improve in recent years.

Williams won in straight sets, but her tentative serving and footwork bore little resemblance to her customarily explosive play.

Some are new and tentative, and serve to focus on what better data of the same kinds could be obtained with present instruments.

Hence, hypotheses differ fundamentally from theories; whereas the former is a specific tentative explanation and serves as the main tool by which scientists gather data, the latter is a broad general explanation that incorporates data from many different scientific investigations undertaken to explore hypotheses.

And the movement itself has a tentative pianissimo ending that serves more as a link to the D-minor Adagio than a proper conclusion.

Outside the small Iraqi Kurdish town of Arbat lies a small tent city that serves as the makeshift home of 513 Syrian Kurdish refugee families, who celebrated the day with tentative hope.

Randy L. Levine, who recently resigned as deputy mayor and is still close to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, was said to be pulling out of a tentative agreement to serve as Mr. Levy's chief negotiator in planned contract talks with the union.

Eight years have passed to find a 29-year-old veteran whose tentative play – and serve – against Ferrer was the continuation of a season in which mind and body have told him the clock now ticks on his career.

Venus is tentative on her serve after those errors.

For all her awkwardness and tentative perseverance, she served as a moral litmus test for many key characters: Colt couldn't bring himself to kill her, nor could Ava.