ground stroke
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3.5
- noun
- Jargon
:
golpe de fondo
- During the lesson, the coach emphasized the importance of a strong ground stroke in tennis.
Examples
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I have to work on my ground stroke.
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We shall look forward to giving you a peek at our ground strokes.
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To improve my game, I need to practice my ground stroke more often during matches.
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Her powerful ground stroke made it difficult for her opponent to return the ball.
Antonyms
How Soft
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'ground' (the court/earth) and 'stroke' (a hit), so the general idea of a hit related to the ground/bounce is compositional and accessible to learners who know the parts. However, the precise tennis-specific sense — a shot played after the ball has bounced once — is a technical extension not automatically predictable from the constituents alone, making it only partially transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Ground stroke: The tennis term ground stroke comes from the simple image of hitting the ball after it bounces on the ground, while a stroke means a hit. So, it now means 'a hit made after the ball bounces'.