How to Use ground stroke in a Sentence

ground stroke

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• Sock worked Beasley’s two-handed backhand, and Naveen struggled to keep his ground strokes and backhand blocks in the court.
  — Todd Boss, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Over the years, his brush strokes have become as admired in sports as Roger Federer’s ground strokes.
  — Zach Schonbrun, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• But Sorey turned the baseline battle back around and won the final six games with an array of strong serves, piercing ground strokes and deft drop shots.
  — Buddy Collings, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
• Williams cut down on her mistakes and drilled one ground stroke after another deep in the court, pushing Anett Kontaveit back on her heels.
  — Brandon Griggs, CNN, 31 Aug. 2022
• The end result can also increase the number of steps to a lateral target - like ground strokes in tennis.
  — NOLA.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• With a mix of slice and chips, lobs and bunts, whippy half-volleys and wristy crosscourt ground strokes off both wings, Hsieh pushed Kerber to the extremes and unsettled her rhythm.
  — John Pye, The Seattle Times, 21 Jan. 2018
• The preparation showed as her ground strokes were precise from the start, while unseeded Bilokin was prone to unforced errors throughout the one-sided first set.
  — Craig Davis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• In the fourth and final set, Federer’s ground strokes, unexpectedly, allowed him to outlast Nadal in rallies.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 12 July 2019
• The influence of King has been so profound and lasting that even the younger generations understand her imprint extends far beyond ground strokes.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2023
• His ground strokes were perfectly calibrated, his serve devastating, his drop shot dying on the bounce.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2020
• Svitolina, seeded eighth here at Wimbledon and playing in her first grand slam semifinal, put up more of a fight in the second set but was powerless against the Romanian's thundering ground strokes.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 11 July 2019
• But the consistency of his ground strokes, and particularly his one-handed backhand, just wasn’t there against higher-level competition and held him back from competing regularly on the ATP Tour.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 8 July 2023
• It’s evinced by her powerful flattened ground strokes, expansive baseline coverage, adroit angle-finding capability, and the maturity that comes with being 29 in a sport where stars are often forged at ages a decade younger.
  — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2023
• Medvedev did have near everything else: clean ground strokes, varying point patterns, improvisational daring, unwavering self-belief.
  — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• Pegula has superb timing and consistency on her ground strokes, serious court smarts, and an inextinguishable competitive fire.
  — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024