Their plain-spokenness gives Mr. Jackson's dialogue a lot of topspin.
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But topspin serves are more accurate and still difficult to return.
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However, it has a high topspin, and it's awkward to return.
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Thiem's favorite surface is clay, where he rips heavy topspin groundstrokes.
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I also used more topspin, and I tried to be more patient.
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You can also adjust side-to-side oscillation, topspin speed, and backspin speed.
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You couldn't hit topspin like he does when you can't trust the bounce.
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When Kasatkina was serving at 3-4, her topspin forehand suddenly become a liability.
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This was more than a battle of topspin forehands and eye-catching defensive skills.
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They contain so much backspin and topspin that you're kept alert by the leaping motion.
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It never demands that you really learn the difference between a topspin and a slice.
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Nadal squeezes the clock the way he does the lines with his heavy topspin forehand.
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The audio version is especially good; the narrator, Erik Davies, adds his own subtle topspin.
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We didn't see the topspin fly ball when we were in spring training, but now we?
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He said he could no longer hit a topspin forehand, his signature shot, without major pain.
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The patter is inane, funny, lifelike, and Ms. Sarandon's Jersey intonations give it a comic topspin.
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She does have power, as anyone who has watched her rip a topspin forehand can attest.
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"I'd be very uphill, so a lot of balls I'd hit would have topspin," Thames said.
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In the final game alone, he hit six slice backhands and just one topspin two-hander.
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I had to pass her off the backhand, sometimes with the slice and sometimes with topspin.
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"Chipotle rewards will be a key element that will provide topspin to our digital system," Niccol said.
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He said he could no longer hit his signature shot — his whipping topspin forehand — without major pain.
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He started hitting one-handed topspin backhands, a shot I'd never seen him hit in a match.
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" Florence: "My goal is to try to keep doing a topspin every time I hit my shot.
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The sunshine that had favored Bourgue's topspin forehand gave way to overcast skies that made for lower bounces.
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So, Serena could be about to deliver a topspin serve, a power serve, or even a slice serve.
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That's because the topspin on the ball forces it to drop sharply right before it reaches the opponent.
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Halep said in her post-match interview that she struggled initially against the left-hander's shots with topspin.
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She has a powerful kick serve, a heavy topspin forehand and the ability to make an opponent suffer.
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For them, larger, modern racquets have had a different effect: The ability to put more topspin on the ball.
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"Well, it's true that they both hit with a lot of topspin," said Toni Nadal, Nadal's uncle and coach.
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Her style is very similar to Muguruza's, though her forehand groundstrokes tend to have a slight topspin to them.
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That's why Serena also uses topspin to her advantage, usually when her first power serve goes out of bounds.3.
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Gennette, the coach of California Lutheran University's men's tennis program, immediately noticed that Liu could put topspin on the ball.
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Do you find people try to put topspin on their answers to those questions in ways that don't feel authentic?
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Ranked 26th, she is a powerful all-court player who uses her heavy topspin forehand to open up the court.
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For example, Serena's average topspin serve is about 145 kilometers per hour, 25 kilometers per hour slower than her power serve.
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Then it was time to practice his serve, working on sidespin, backspin and topspin and learning the correct moment for each.
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On Friday, they had to deal not only with each other's topspin forehands and inner strength but also with the wind.
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But we're working on things like putting topspin, going a little higher over the net, playing deeper, the movement, of course.
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"I don't know much," Gauff said of Hercog, a 28-year-old with an excellent serve and a heavy topspin forehand.
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The bigger racquet head allows him to be more aggressive against Mr Nadal's booming topspin, a strategy that has paid handsome dividends.
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" He credited Hernández's decision to "topspin from Pence and Pompeo," adding, "That kind of illustrates how the cabinet really helps me overseas.
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But for the spectator, there is also the sense that the one-hander, when driven with topspin, is a triumph over vulnerability.
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Federer's right-handed second serve is hit with topspin, kicking up high into the body on the backhand side of the returner.
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Adding to the unusual nature of her slice is the fact that she thumps her backhand drive and topspin with two hands.
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The opening eight games went with serve with Shapovalov producing some trademark backhands winners from his single-hander, including one audacious topspin lob.
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"For sure with the kick serve, the forehand topspin and the drop shot and slice on clay, she can be magic," Dehaes said.
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In hot, clear conditions, Nadal's topspin kicked up over Schwartzman's shoulders, leaving him unable to encroach into the court as he had before.
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TopSpin Chief Executive Doron Kolton said his clients include one of Israel's top five banks, a large U.S. hospital and a mobility technology company.
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The system developed by TopSpin, whose investors include Check Point Software Technologies co-founder Shlomo Kramer, engages attackers once they have penetrated the network.
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It bounces lower and spins in the opposite direction than the heavy topspin groundstrokes that are the coin of the realm in pro tennis.
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As of now, it only functions like a basic analytics service, akin to Topspin, with a couple extras like the song link tracking mentioned above.
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In 2014, Beats Music, a subscription-based streaming service, bought Topspin Media, another innovative platform that helped artists sell merchandise and albums directly to fans.
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But that was not the game Courtney Donaldson was seeing on television, with the pros hitting arcing shots higher over the net with considerable topspin.
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The match resumed on Thursday and on a dry court favoring Nadal's huge topspin, the diminutive Schwartzman's aggressive tactics failed to make the same impact.
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Known for his torquing topspin and forceful forehand, Rafael Nadal showed off a different, metaphoric skill late Tuesday night at the United States Open: digestion.
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Neither is the extreme topspin on a Rafael Nadal forehand or the way the net cord shakes after being struck by a Venus Williams serve.
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In his Tour Finals upset, he limited Mr Djokovic to topspin backhands on only 41% of his groundstrokes, compared to the Serbian's career average of 45%.
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Muguruza's flat-hitting, go-for-broke game bears little resemblance to the more patient, topspin-heavy approach of Sergi Bruguera or Sánchez's domestic rival Conchita Martínez.
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Wood rackets, with 21990-inch hitting areas, made it difficult to generate the kind of whiplike topspin necessary to dip the ball at the volleyer's feet.
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Ruud has modeled his game on Nadal's, not Federer's, from the heavy topspin forehand to a penchant for standing deep behind the baseline to return serve.
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In the quarterfinals, against Rafael Nadal, Thiem played with a lower slice that moved Nadal around the court, keeping him from using his powerful topspin shots.
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Each time Federer was beaten, unable to contain the marauding Mallorcan whose left-handed topspin game tormented the Swiss great like no other player has ever managed.
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Nadal, the No. 4 seed, expressed growing confidence in his game, even if his wrist — the one responsible for his ferocious topspin forehands — is not fully healed.
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Her kick serve and her topspin forehand bounce high, and her slice dies short, a combination that has caused discombobulating distress to opponent after opponent in Paris.
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He struggled repeatedly with the timing on his one-handed backhand as he tried to counter Nadal's whipping topspin by hitting the ball right after the bounce.
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That's not only far and away more action on the ball than players like Rosewall imparted, it's roughly twice the revolutions Federer creates with his topspin backhand.
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Thanks to a phenomenon known as the Magnus effect, a ball with more topspin dives toward the court at a sharper angle once it has cleared the net.
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Arthur Ashe always had an exquisite sense of timing, whether he was striking a topspin backhand or choosing when to speak out for liberty and justice for all.
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Instead of playing loose, instead of rolling out his powerful topspin in the first set, he let backspin add a needed measure of conservative play to his game.
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Nadal, who hits with bounding topspin and has struggled with his knees, has frequently been blitzed by aggressive, flat hitting players in the tournament's opening rounds in past years.
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Stephens is also striking the right balance between defense and offense, rarely overhitting and putting ample topspin on her big forehand, which gives her plenty of margin for error.
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Mr Nadal has always used his extreme topspin to take advantage of Mr Federer's elegant but relatively weak one-handed backhand, a tactic that served him well for a decade.
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Backed into a defensive corner, she lifted a gentle, arching topspin lob that curled into the sky and fell back to the red clay inside the baseline for match point.
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He is ranked 35th in the world and part of a new wave of players who are ensuring that the one-handed topspin backhand lives on at the highest level.
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Kyrgios, 22, can serve north of 140 miles an hour and follows that up with a lethal forehand, hit with astonishing racket-head speed that generates heavy topspin and force.
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She uses topspin loops, slices, and drop shots when she's defending, and she has a knack for keeping her opponent on the run and hitting balls out of the strike zone.
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Unlike the classically trained English, who lifted the bat directly behind them in the backswing, the boy from the Australian bush looped it away from his body, like a topspin forehand.
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Zverev held an early 3-63 lead in the third set, but Verdasco quickly turned the tables, dictating play and pushing Zverev far from the baseline with his power and topspin.
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Like Bresnik, Toni Nadal was not a tour-level player, yet was able to help his hard-working, topspin-ripping pupil navigate all the choppy water from neophyte to leading professional.
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He has only lost twice on the Parisian clay in 14 years in which time his heavy topspin game has seen him bulldoze his way to a Grand Slam record 113 titles.
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A lesser competitor might have lost his edge long ago, but Nadal is still sliding after drop shots and throwing his body into topspin forehands with the gusto of a younger player.
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His one-handed backhand has long been his weak link against Nadal, whose whipping topspin forehand has forced Federer to hit too many backhands above the shoulder — and too many backhands, period.
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She has pure technique, including a potent loop topspin forehand and a powerful, match-winning serve full of disguise and power, which she generates with great leg drive and racket-head speed.
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Andreescu and Barty have the skills to thrive on clay — their strong topspin forehands, quick feet and ability to hit sliced backhands, well-disguised drop shots and heavy first and second serves.
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But Smith believes that Keys, under the guidance of her coach, Lindsay Davenport, is able to hit with more topspin on the backhand side now, creating more clearance when Keys needs it.
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Before Roger Federer retooled his backhand to better handle Rafael Nadal's ferocious topspin, Mr Nadal won 23 of 34 career meetings, more often than not as the lower-ranked of the two players.
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DOMINIC THIEM (Austria) The Austrian's elegant game is tailor-made for clay and while his style is very different to the more powerful Nadal's he boasts the same stinging topspin off both flanks.
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That he did not have a signature weapon like Mr Federer's deadly serve, Mr Nadal's bruising topspin, or Mr Djokovic's physics-defying backhand meant that his style was more of an acquired taste.
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The 38-year-old was known for her single-handed topspin backhand, delicate drop shots and serve-and-volley tennis during a career that earned her eight singles titles and seven doubles titles.
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Federer, 37, and Nadal, 113, have continued to push each other, contending for longer than even they could have imagined when they last traded topspin forehands and compliments at the All England Club.
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But while Pella is a solidly constructed, Spanish-speaking left-hander with a whipping topspin forehand, there is no confusing him with Rafael Nadal, the Federer nemesis missing this Wimbledon with a wrist injury.
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"It was a tough match as her left-handed topspin is hard to handle," Halep said about an opponent who once used to be a right-hander but switched over to being a lefty.
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Then there is the vicious topspin forehand modelled on her idol Rafael Nadal's weapon-of-choice and the Marat Safin-like double-handed backhand, taken at shoulder-level with both feet off the ground.
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NISHIKORI COMES BACK Kei Nishikori saved a match point with a perfect topspin lob and fought back to beat Gilles Müller, 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-763, in the Swiss Indoors semifinals in Basel.
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Kasatkina won three straight games on Monday after play resumed on the tournament's main Chatrier Court, using her topspin forehand to stretch Wozniacki into the corners and to pass her when she came to net.
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A nonprofit founded nearly half a century ago by Arthur Ashe and Lewis Hartman, New York Junior Tennis feeds underserved children and teaches them to read and multiply as well as to scorch a topspin serve.
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Thiem, whose court coverage and heavy topspin shots are well suited to slower courts, has often lost his battles against Nadal, whose style of play Thiem has liberally learned from — or plagiarized, depending on whom you support.
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He will need another level, or two, against left-hander Nadal whose vicious topspin game has given him mastery over Federer at Roland Garros where he has never even been taken to five sets by the Swiss maestro.
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A pumped-up Svitolina made the better start, chasing down every ball to earn an early break but the aggressive Bertens broke back as she began to find her range with a blistering forehand loaded with heavy topspin.
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Jared Donaldson, an American from Rhode Island, went to Argentina when he was 15 and stayed for the better part of two and a half years to learn tennis on clay and to study the fine art of topspin.
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Federer did a masterly job on Friday of keeping Berdych off balance and on the run: carving acute angles with his groundstrokes and serves, varying topspin and slice and launching surprise attacks on the net from unexpected court positions.
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His hypothesis was that it had something to do with the Magnus effect: when a pitcher throws a curveball with good topspin, this creates a high-pressure zone at the top, and the ball gets deflected downward in an exaggerated drop.
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Jared Donaldson, a 19-year-old from Rhode Island, went to Argentina when he was 15 for the better part of two and a half years to learn tennis on Argentine clay and to study the fine art of topspin.
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When your opponent flings a charged up topspin shot at you (marked as such by the bright red energy tail behind the ball), you have a split second to remember that you need to respond with a charged up slice.
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But it will be hard to be quite so relaxed and experimental against Nadal, whose ability (when healthy) to extend rallies and take command of them with his left-handed, topspin forehand is an entirely different, though much more familiar, challenge.
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Like Phelps, his physique and technique are perfectly adapted to this environment: No one moves on terre battue like Nadal, and no one's topspin forehand kicks like Nadal's, not even Thiem's, which is quite a versatile weapon on its own.
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PARIS (Reuters) - A vicious topspin forehand modeled on her idol Rafael Nadal's weapon-of-choice got Daria Kasatkina out of a spot of bother in a topsy-turvy third-round match against Maria Sakkari at the French Open on Friday.
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Several services, like Next Big Sound and Topspin, offer musicians analytics, insights, and some marketing tools (like merch fulfillment and unlocking content for fans that give information like an email address), but this is only one piece of what an artist needs.
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If you want to put some topspin on that, you throw in a 22,2053-year-old technology called distilling, which pumps energy into that fermented stuff in the form of heat and separates the more volatile molecules (like ethanol) from the heavier ones.
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Thiem, the fifth seed, reached the French Open final for the second year running last month but his heavy topspin game is less effective on grass and Querrey took full advantage to win 6-203(4) 7-6(1) 6-3 6-0.
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With her crafty style, full of slices, topspin, dropshots and net approaches, the 23-year-old Australian drove Keys to despair at times in a 6-3 7-5 win to advance to her first Grand Slam semi-final against American teenager Amanda Anisimova.
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At 5-foot-5, she is shorter than most leading players, but she generates great leg drive and racket-head speed on her serve and is as comfortable punching away volleys at the net as she is generating topspin or very crisp slice in the backcourt.
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There is seating for 65 or so people beneath a wall sculpture of a fish that glows from behind and a pink neon sign that reads "tiger milk effect," probably a reference to the belief that drinking leftover leche de tigre can put extra topspin on sexual performance.
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They have met 22 times since that epic five-setter when Nadal became the first Spaniard since Manolo Santana in 1966 to win the men's title, proving he was not just a claycourt bully but had evolved his topspin game after losing consecutive Wimbledon finals to Federer in 2006 and 2007.
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Four of those victories have come in finals, and though this match was a thriller in comparison with Nadal's 6-1, 6-3, 6-0 victory in 2008, it still ended with Nadal's imposing his topspin forehand and Federer slumping toward the trophy ceremony with most of the crowd commiserating.
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The rallies on Sunday were routinely physical and often extended, full of topspin and corner-to-corner action and punctuated by loud grunts that were every bit as clamorous as any in the women's game (even if the grunting issue only seems to be a talking point in the women's side).
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The team points to investor dollars pouring into a slew of security startups also plying a nascent decoy furrow for tackling attacks — name checking the likes of TopSpin, Attivo, Guardicore, illusive Networks, YC-backed Cymmetria and TrapX, and noting they have collectively bagged more than $100 million in VC funding since late 2014.
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Wearing leggings and a tank top — her magnificent mane of frizzy blond-tinted hair emerging from the back of her Adidas cap — the 20-year-old smacked crisp topspin groundstrokes with her coach, Sascha Bajin, a German of Serb descent best known for working as Serena Williams's hitting partner for eight years.
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In other words, there's a reason the topspin-reliant Nadal has made just one final at the Paris Masters and two at the ATP Finals, while Roger Federer (one of the best servers ever and the most aggressive of the game's elite) has reached the final of the ATP Finals 20.781 times, winning six, and Novak Djokovic (the ultimate defender who hits flat shots through the court) has reached seven of those finals, capturing five titles.
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It has some strong moments: Andy Roddick telling us that it is because he is 'a big history buff' that his favourite book is Angels and Demons by Dan Brown; Sam Querrey pronouncing 'book' like he isn't quite convinced of the spelling; Rafa sitting there for a second or two, looking like he isn't even convinced of the definition, and then naming a book in the magic-realist Latin American tradition from the daughter of the ex-Chilean president called City of the Beasts, like a sudden topspin whip kicking up in your face.
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