How To Use Topspin In A Sentence
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That allows you to get that sidespin and topspin, not backspin, so the ball rotates, curls and dips.
Times, Sunday Times
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Topspin: Powerful groundstrokes make her a contender in weakened field.
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REUTERS Kimiko Date-Krumm She's 5-foot-4, age 40 and has as much use for topspin as a weekend hacker with a wooden racket, but Kimiko Date-Krumm gave five-time Wimbledon champ Venus Williams all she could handle Wednesday before Williams won 6-76, 6-3, 8-6.
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Fielding chose this moment to untether a two-fisted topspin drive.
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• Nick Clegg's topspin in defence of Sheffield city council's dodgy 2011 budget didn't save the ruling Lib Dem group in last week's elections.
Hugh Muir's diary
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Rebecca went to retrieve the ball, which I had hit hard, with tons of topspin, into her left corner.
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When an opponent comes to the net, he likes to hit a dipping topspin shot, which forces the other guy to volley, rather than trying for an outrageous angle.
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This supposed injustice is another piece of classic El Tel topspin.
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When you do it right, the sensation is like hitting a topspin Ping-Pong shot with your left hand.
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It will pop up, jump over the rough with topspin and roll to the hole.
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With heavy topspin, the grips are smaller so the guys can pronate their wrists fast on their forehands," said Stan Smith, U.S.
The Little Racket That Changed Tennis
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Add to that a dash of agility, some heavy topspin, touch, and a dollop of intelligence and there you have it: the most complete player to emerge from Spain in decades.
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Well most kids I know are better adjusted than that, and know very well that spending five hours a day practising topspin won't bring them happiness and fulfilment - whereas an hour a week followed by a can of fizzy pop might be quite fun.
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This topspin caused the mallet to drive the ball downward into the ground, thus significantly increasing the force generated by the forearm flexors.
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The topspin on a curveball pushes the ball down.
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The additional width (eleven inches compared to ten) allows the ball to travel farther along the string bed, but only if a player swings at a steep angle consistent with a topspin lob, not a ground-stroke drive.
Spin Doctors
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To me, feel in action is a tennis player sizing up a passing shot and in a split-second choosing either to break off a sharp topspin angler or completely fool his opponent with a soft, carefully placed lob.
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But open stances, short backswings, moderate grips, and topspin make up the vast majority of the game.
The Lost Art of Playing Weirdly
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You can put backspin, topspin, sidespin, all the spin you can put!
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And it held the ball on the strings longer, allowing athletes to impart greater topspin on the ball than they would with a normal topspin stroke.
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`I'm doing a piece for the Sunday Tribune -- you know, wringing their withers, lots of colour, plenty of topspin.
DEAD BEAT
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Off-breaks, topspin, doosra, from all angles and at a whole range of speeds.
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Hewitt hit a topspin lob, a shot that frequently bails him out of trouble, but Karlovic reached up and slammed it for a winner.
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At the same time, I wanted her right forearm to roll over as if she were hitting a forehand topspin shot in tennis.
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Once you have all that down, you can still learn how to react to the wind, and whether to use topspin, backspin, or sidespin.
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The ferocious topspin he used achieved depth while keeping a much wider margin for error than a flat stroke.
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A beautiful backhand topspin lob got Capriati within two points of victory, and she wrapped it up with a good deep forehand and then a backhand passing shot.
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There's backspin, volleys, drop-shots, lobs and, of course, topspin - to recreate that element of surprise.
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`I'm doing a piece for the Sunday Tribune -- you know, wringing their withers, lots of colour, plenty of topspin.
DEAD BEAT
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The topspin seems to be preventing lift that gets the ball over the infielders and outfielders.
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Once you have all that down, you can still learn how to react to the wind, and whether to use topspin, backspin, or sidespin.
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And it held the ball on the strings longer, allowing athletes to impart greater topspin on the ball than they would with a normal topspin stroke.
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She puts heavy topspin on her serve.
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He hit four clean winners topspin forehand lob, crosscourt backhand pass, forehand pass, and crosscourt forehand return to break and win the set.
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The lower air density also reduces the Magnus Effect, which causes a spinning ball to swerve in flight and makes a ball with topspin dip downwards.
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He does not just play heavy topspin, he is very versatile.
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I don't have a Francesca Schiavone slice or her topspin on the forehand.
Kvitova Beats Sharapova to Win Wimbledon Title
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The young Spaniard's heavy topspin from the left side had Federer off balance and indecisive about where to attack, and he committed 62 unforced errors.
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He was known for his strength and endurance and for using his multiple skills, including a rare double-handed backhand and a killer topspin, to manage a match with ground strokes in long rallies.
Game, Set, Unmatched
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It was a masterful performance by the world's top-ranked player, who mixed powerful ground strokes, flashing returns, topspin lobs and all-court hustle to beat Henman for the sixth straight time.
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You can add side spin and/or backspin/topspin.
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He often uses as many slices, dinks and touch shots as he does conventional topspin drives, and sometimes this heady brew turns out to be too clever for its own good.
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Barely getting to a strong approach shot, Serena lofted a backhand topspin lob that floated over the 2000 French Open winner and landed on a corner.
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Isn't it impossible to create topspin and get a ball airborne?
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He tomahawked the pitch and the ball had topspin and dipped into the lower deck and there is Pafko at the 315 sign looking straight up with his right arm braced at the wall and a spate of paper coming down.
Underworld
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She puts heavy topspin on her serve.
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Watch dated film of players pre-Laver, and the game seems so effete, but he brought in power and the use of topspin with a supreme combination of force and finesse.
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At the same time, I wanted her right forearm to roll over as if she were hitting a forehand topspin shot in tennis.