By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: March 4, 2015
I wonder if a tennis player will ever serve like a professional volleyball player, throwing the ball up in the arm, then running up to it, jumping as high as possible, and hitting it from there? Even if they only jump 18”, that’s a huge advantage; it’s like going from six feet tall to 7.5’ tall, and I could jump almost twice as high as that when I was in my teens and twenties. It would be hard to sustain that for a match of several hours, but for key points, maybe? Just wondering.