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  1. The reason it’s so hard now is the extreme short angle pass nowadays. Before if you pushed a guy behind the baseline, he didn’t have a lot of angle. You could cover the line and a good cross passing shot would be somewhere near the corner the service box. Now it’s halfway up the service box and you’ve got to shade that way especially on an approach to the forehand. Well now you’ve given up too much space the line too.

  2. Tennis over many generations and periods of time will always find a way to adapt, change, create, construct new methods to do this game. During the ‘big serves era’ (Sampras, Becker etc ) there were calls to take pressure out of the ball so the receiver had a chance and the spectators could see a rally … along came Andre and others that worked out how to increase reflex and techniques to cope, and they did. Volleys will also return to the game, with new thoughts and methods – such as removing the split step and learning the right lines to move forward, plus the selection of the right time (which has not changed) to move in. You don’t have to look far to see the development of this in the ‘engine tennis’ programs around the world and in my own backyard of Melbourne. Will happen and will be exciting !