Sentence examples for vulnerable serve from inspiring English sources

Alas, Jankovic, a great defender with a terrific backhand but a sometimes vulnerable serve, has played in four Grand Slam semifinals and lost them all.

She has done it less than a year after left ankle surgery caused her to miss the second half of the 2007 season, a break that allowed her to improve her previously vulnerable serve.

Dementieva was also a revelation with her once very vulnerable serve, having heightened the action and increased its consistency, and retaining sufficient belief in it to hold on several times during the agonising later stages of each set.

The vulnerable serve improved sufficiently to take the pressure off and the Russian hammered away with her forehand to break at 6-5, forcing a decider.

Hewett was still vulnerable on serve, however, and he was broken again after a peach of a volley from Houdet, who has won 14 grand slam doubles titles.

Mahut continued to look vulnerable on serve and saved two more break points at 4-4, when Peers should have done better with a routine volley which he put in the net followed by a poor lob which was easily punished.

Although some of his songs, like Quincy Jones's version of "Velas" ("Sails"), have been turned into lite-jazz staples, Mr. Lins's own intimate baritone and vulnerable falsetto serve his songs better.

Murray finished with 13 aces and having won an impressive 79% of points on his sometimes vulnerable second serve.

He had spoken about attacking the German's highly-vulnerable second serve, although first he needed to hold his own.

The soft-shelled eggs of the taricaya, an Amazon river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis), also listed as vulnerable, are served in pungent heaps to customers in the rubbish-strewn alleys.

The report provides a key element of the economic blueprint for forward-looking economic policy, by emphasising the role of social protection measures in cushioning the impact of the crisis among vulnerable populations, serving as a macroeconomic stabiliser fuelling demand and enabling people to better overcome poverty and social exclusion in both developing and developed countries.