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
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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
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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
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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
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The end result can also increase the number of steps to a lateral target - like ground strokes in tennis.
—NOLA.com, 23 Mar. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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His ground strokes were perfectly calibrated, his serve devastating, his drop shot dying on the bounce.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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