The Return of Serve and Volley: Can It Happen?

[julian1]

Variety for serve and volley

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[jbill]

Fun watching

Speaking of serve and volley, this week in Paris, Michael Llodra has done quite well for himself. I love watching him. He was supposed to play Radek Stepanek another serve-volley guy, but Stepanek pulled out for some reason. That would have been a very interesting match. Llodra is in the third round now playing Del Potro this morning.

I had the chance to watch Mischa Zverev at the challenger in Sacramento in October of this year. I watched him play three matches in which he served and volleyed the whole way through. He got to the final and lost to Blake. I believe Zverev got as high as #47 in the world about three years ago.

Yeah, there aren't many serve-volley guys at the top level, but they sure are fun to watch.

[jbill]

Serve-volley takes down Delpo

Well guys and gals, Michael Llodra has just taken out Juan Martin Del Potro, 6-4, 6-3, at the indoor Masters tournament in Paris. Very impressive. Del potro is known to be one of the better indoor players, too. Delpo really got tired of seeing Llodra in his face so consistently.

So I think we have a model for how serve-volley can be done at the top level. This court they played on wasn't particularly fast either according to the announcers. I understand that there are various reasons why players of the present era don't play that style of game, but at least we know it can work. Llodra proved that today.

[stotty]

Service motion

Llodra has had some success at serve and volleying and he is not even that good at it...well compared to players of the past he isn't. It's definitely still a viable way to play.

Looking at a number of serves at the tournament in Paris this week, don_budge could well have a good point. A lot of the service motions don't lend themselves well to moving up to the net. Michael Stich had a lovely flowing motion that allowed him to move quickly up behind it. Edberg had a far less beautiful serve but boy did it allow him a quick journey to the net ....has anyone got to the net quicker?...only Frank Sedgman so I'm told.

It's hard to serve and volley without the right type of service action.

[julian1]

Did u watch Kevin Anderson yesterday?

Llodra has had some success at serve and volleying and he is not even that good at it...well compared to players of the past he isn't. It's definitely still a viable way to play.

Looking at a number of serves at the tournament in Paris this week, don_budge could well have a good point. A lot of the service motions don't lend themselves well to moving up to the net. Michael Stich had a lovely flowing motion that allowed him to move quickly up behind it. Edberg had a far less beautiful serve but boy did it allow him a quick journey to the net ....has anyone got to the net quicker?...only Frank Sedgman so I'm told.

It's hard to serve and volley without the right type of service action.

Did u watch Kevin Anderson yesterday?
His serve and volley looked pretty efficient
We do NOT have live in past,do NOT we?
See as well

http://www.tennisplayer.net/bulletin/showthread.php?t=2182&page=3

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[stotty]

Anderson versus Edberg

Did u watch Kevin Anderson yesterday?
His serve and volley looked pretty efficient
We do NOT have live in past,do NOT we?
See as well

http://www.tennisplayer.net/bulletin/showthread.php?t=2182&page=3

post #24

Not even close to Edberg. Go to 35 seconds and watch Stefan in slow motion. Incredible how the serve propels him to the Edberg in time to shut down angles. It's not a question of living in the past, more a question of the present not being a match for the past...not in the serve and volley department that is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ll_RTlYizU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjCoyKvyhY0