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- noun tennis A powerful
underarm volley shot .
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Examples
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Murray promptly undid all his hard work, however, Melzer hitting straight back when the fifth seed allowed himself to be pushed backwards and the Austrian clinched the game with a drive-volley.
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Murray promptly undid all his hard work, however, Melzer hitting straight back when the fifth seed allowed himself to be pushed backwards and the Austrian clinched the game with a drive-volley.
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She opened with a dart to the net of her own and an angle forehand volley, a fabulous high backhand drive-volley put her 4-0 up, and Schiavone then netted a volley and sent one long to trail 6-0.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Murray promptly undid all his hard work, however, Melzer hitting straight back when the fifth seed allowed himself to be pushed backwards and the Austrian clinched the game with a drive-volley.
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She opened with a dart to the net of her own and an angle forehand volley, a fabulous high backhand drive-volley put her 4-0 up, and Schiavone then netted a volley and sent one long to trail 6-0.
BBC News - Home 2011
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The tension was palpable and Clijsters produced back-to-back double-faults of her own and a woeful drive-volley to gift Williams the break back, only to break again in the next game courtesy of a sublime backhand lob which landed just inside the baseline.
icHuddersfield 2010
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The tension was palpable and Clijsters produced back-to-back double-faults of her own and a woeful drive-volley to gift Williams the break back, only to break again in the next game courtesy of a sublime backhand lob which landed just inside the baseline.
icScotland 2010
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But the 26-year-old keeps his neck in front with a drive-volley winner.
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But the 26-year-old keeps his neck in front with a drive-volley winner.
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But the 26-year-old keeps his neck in front with a drive-volley winner.
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