The Guardian

What is a volley?

The laws of football now stretch to precisely 140 pages, but our comprehension of them could probably be covered in 140 characters. Football has always been a simple, intuitively understood game, with ...
The New York Times

The Volley, Once a Huge Part of the Game, Is in Decline

For more than 50 years, through the last half of the 20th century, the volley played the lead role in tennis’s premier drama, Wimbledon. On the slick grass courts of the All England Club, a ball ...
FiveThirtyEight

The Serve-And-Volley Works, But Women’s Tennis Players Aren’t Using It

Women at this year’s U.S. Open have displayed incredible athleticism and shrewd strategy. We’ve seen blistering serves and masterful groundstrokes in the nearly two weeks of play. But we’ve been ...
ESPN

The serve-and-volley may be a dying art -- but it's extremely effective still

Carlos Alcaraz, the two-time defending Wimbledon champ, won 16 out of 20 serve and volley points in his semifinal against Taylor Fritz. Julian Finney/Getty Images But it's not dead. "I am just serving ...
ESPN

The serve-and-volley may be a dying art -- but it's extremely effective still

Carlos Alcaraz, the two-time defending Wimbledon champ, won 16 out of 20 serve and volley points in his semifinal against Taylor Fritz. Julian Finney/Getty Images WIMBLEDON, England -- Carlos Alcaraz ...