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Fleet-footed movement across the service boxes and another silly angle on a drop volley.—Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025 Nothing less than one of his signature, mistake-free tiebreakers and a lunging forehand drop volley that not even perhaps the fastest player in the game bothered to chase.—Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 4 Aug. 2024 Norrie ran to that, twisted his body to reply with a forehand and Djokovic ended the 14-stroke exchange with a drop volley winner.—Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2022 The Russian closed out the second set authoriatively on his serve, delicately returning a crosscourt drop volley into the corner for a winner that brought him to triple-set point.—Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021 With Djokovic serving at 4-5, 30-all, Federer produced a stunning drop volley to earn a set point, only for it to be erased thanks to a fine Djokovic serve.—Ravi Ubha, CNN, 14 July 2019
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