top-spin

Today's players are extraordinarily skilful but I would still like to see them hitting a running top-spin backhand in the manner of Rod Laver while using a wooden-framed racket that weighs double the ones they use now and has a sweet spot a quarter the size.

Balls of fire risk extinguishing wow factor from long-range kicks Shaun Edwards 2010

Then there is the top-spin, which can make two balls land in the same place but bounce at wildly different angles.

Shahid Afridi's bowling unites Pakistan and Bangladesh in cricket | Andy Bull 2011

The muscularity of Nadal's first service game set the tone, as they traded top-spin belters from behind the baseline.

Rafael Nadal edges past Mardy Fish in ATP World Tour Finals 2011

If anyone out here has any tips on hitting a consistent top-spin backhand, please fax them to Doubleday.

A Conversation with Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code 2010

Murray* leads Lacko 6-3, 6-2 Murray produces some world-class tennis with a whipped, top-spin forehand followed by an angled volley to go 30-15 up.

Andy Murray v Lukas Lacko - as it happened 2010

He used a top-spin serve, threw up the ball as hard as he could, then he bopped Mom on the back of her head.

Misty Misty May-Treanor With Jill Lieber Steeg 2010

He used a top-spin serve, threw up the ball as hard as he could, then he bopped Mom on the back of her head.

Misty Misty May-Treanor With Jill Lieber Steeg 2010

The changing tastes of the sporting public in these countries has as much to do with world economics and access to the game as it does with power serves and top-spin forehands.

India Aims for Center Court  matthew futterman 2009

The seesaw battle of opposing styles -- Mr. Owens is considered a "looper" for his top-spin shots, while Mr. Zhuang is more of a "blocker" with his traditional Chinese pen-hold grip -- continued until each won three games, forcing a decisive seventh.

Pong Dynasty: 2008

Stile served, a cross-court top-spin ball, fast and low over the net, striking neatly two centimeters from the back edge of the table.

Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980