Maxime Cressy, Wimbledon applauds the last guardian of serve & volley

The American who eliminated Auger Aliassime in the first round of Wimbledon is a fundamentalist of the escape to the net, a gesture that we see less and less but which he would not give up for anything in the world

In the various blogs of tennis enthusiasts, a couple of years ago, in the shallows of seasons conditioned and dried up by Covid, a letter returned which on the computer keyboard is paired with the 6: just above, you can only beat it by pressing the key together. capital letter and the number: it is the &, the commercial “e” of Latin derivation (ligature of the letters et) but now commonly used in the English language, and the final positioning in the alphabet has finally named it as “ampersand”, letter / word itself, however reduced to a link, used in the names of companies and firms with several partners or owners, and remained in some particular use, and here we are at serve & volley.

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