serve and volleyadj.n.

1921 Amer. Lawn Tennis 15 June 114/1 Here we had the serve and volley game carried to the nth degree; although ‘Mac’ did have a forehand clout that carried him through many a tight place when striving for the net.

1941 Washington Post 3 Aug. (Sports section) 5/1 Should Bennion smooth out his ground strokes..and synchronize them with his serve and volley attack, he may provide Welsh with more opposition than the champion has bargained for.

1965 Times 20 Feb. 5/1 Even on a centre court with a sheen to its wooden surface to delight the modern serve-and-volley player, the experienced baseline player can still control the match against raw power.

1986 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 17 Jan. iii. 6/1 Just when players thought they had scouted Becker's booming serve-and-volley style, he borrows a page from the Swedish playbook.

2006 Ace Tennis Oct. 11/3 In retirement one of her plans is to open an academy that specialises in teaching the serve-and-volley game.

1933 Amer. Lawn Tennis 20 Sept. 29/1 Serve and volley cannot be counted on to win outright.

1995 N.Y. Times Mag. 27 Aug. 47/2 On a medium hard court, you can win from the back court and you can play serve and volley.

1998 Times 25 June 50/7 Moya comes from a different generation and, leading the Spanish assault on the rankings, he is determined to give both grass and serve-and-volley a go.

2014 N. Chare Sportswomen in Cinema (2015) vi. 137 Serve-and-volley is an aggressive style of play. It is the style of play that Navratilova favoured.

1970 Washington Post 17 July d1/6 Ashe and Richey displayed the intelligent strategies of clay-court tennis. For Richey, this is nothing new. For serve-and-volleyer Ashe, it is.

1990 Tennis July 37/1 You may not serve like..Becker, but that doesn't mean you can't be a good serve-and-volleyer.

2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 Oct. viii. 10/4 It is a little easier for Federer nowadays because he doesn't have to deal with too many pure serve-and-volleyers.