Serve-and-volley a blast from the past
By Reuters in Melbourne | China Daily | Updated: 2017-01-25 07:29
Tennis legend-turned-TV analyst John McEnroe summed it up best when he told Mischa Zverev, "You did it old school!"
That was after the upstart German bounced world No 1 Andy Murray from the Australian Open on Sunday.
Zverev's stunning upset in the fourth round was indeed a throwback to the 1980s, when sticking to the baseline was something reserved only for clay courts.
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