Word: volleyer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Faced with game point in the top doubles position, sophomore Beier Ko dived to the court to let the ball sail by, only inches out. Moments later, Ko’s partner, freshman Lena Litvak, nearly decapitated her Minutewoman opponent when given an easy volley...
...first singles, No. 107 Litvak tore through opponent Michele Spiess, winning 6-2, 6-0, putting Spiess away with a swinging forehand volley on match point...
...fans felt as worn out as the players.The match started out auspiciously for Harvard but proceeded with such riveting swings of momentum that the final turn—in Purdue’s favor—felt almost anticlimactic.That swing came in the form of a missed backhand volley by No. 3 Junior Dan Nguyen with the score knotted at 10-10 in a third set tiebreaker. The volley did not stretch Nguyen much—four feet from the net, at a seemingly comfortable height—but Nguyen underestimated, punching the ball into the net and then hobbling...
...overpowered and outmaneuvered their opponents to an easy 8-3 victory, keeping the Jaspers on their heels with sizzling serves and a well-executed two-man net game. In the final game, Denenberg showed the extent of his comfort by redirecting an attempted passing shot into a feeble drop-volley and crushing an overhead on match-point straight to the back wall of his opponents...
...motivation he could end up as the greatest player of all time . . . he hasn't got a weakness." With only two majors, Pat Rafter doesn't qualify as a great, but Cooper marvels at how, as a pint-sized 13-year-old, the Queenslander tried to play a serve-volley style that was beyond him. "But all that lunging he did as a little bloke set him up," Cooper says. "He grew into a great athlete who could reach everything...