Sentence examples for timely serves from inspiring English sources

But her precision, from her timely serves to her wicked one-handed backhands, reflected her invincibility.

Roddick and Aynaoui traded timely serves, huge forehands, delicately sliced backhands, acrobatic volleys and admiring, increasingly exhausted glances over a fifth set that required 2 hours 23 minutes, and 40 games, to resolve.

Although Vesnina did produce some timely serves and sparkling tennis, Williams put only 38 percent of her first serves in play — a woeful strike rate — and made off-balance unforced errors in bunches.

It was difficult to believe on Wednesday as Safin, the 28-year-old powerhouse who has been stalled the last two seasons, suddenly looked like a renaissance man on Centre Court: bombing timely serves and making consistently clean contact with his big ground strokes while hugging the baseline and, above all, covering the baseline.

Indeed, he suggested that any attempt at Security Council reform at this stage would not be "timely", serving merely to distract from more urgent matters.

Just as Daily Telegraph-reading ladies of a certain age had booked their tickets for centre court yesterday hoping to see Timmy take the crown in jubilee year, so you turned to this page eagerly anticipating a timely serving of your favourite critic.

But with some timely first serves and swing volleys, Federer went on to take the tie breaker, 8-6, and the match, 6-3, 7-6 (6), 6-2.

But against the fifth-seeded Nadal, the flashy Darcis — nicknamed Shark because of the shark tattoo on his shoulder — was a highly effective predator: producing cocksure forehand winners, timely first serves and an alluring blend of full-stretch defense and storm-the-net offense that often left Nadal looking surprised and off balance.

The failure of the Congress to act on these and a host of other bills in a timely fashion serves to emphasize just how irresponsible American politicians have become -- and how broken the American political process is.

Leaf population chlorophyll content in a population of crops, if obtained in a timely manner, served as a key indicator for growth management and diseases diagnosis.

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