Is Serve and Volleying tiring?

[southpaw]

Originally Posted by Supernatural_Serve

That's interesting 10 to 20% more time from 1st to 2nd serves. Were those numbers for only serve and volley points or all 1st and 2nd serves regardless of whether the server played serve and volley?

The latter would be a little more interesting number.

Those are all serve and volley for both first and second. The Laver numbers are from the 1969 Wimbledon final. I gave up trying to find serves where he stayed back, both him and Newcombe s&v'd pretty much every point. The Fed, Sampras numbers are from 2001, and I didn't find much difference in the times regardless of whether they came in or not.

[stormholloway]

Serve and volleying is explosive so it's a different kind of of tired. Baseline play is stamina based and serve and volley is explosive power.

It depends in what way you're stronger. I can tell you since I play both styles that S&V can be tiring. S&V cannot be defensive whereas you can slow play down as a baseliner.

Overall, why ask if it's tiring? Just go see for yourself. If you get tired, then train harder.

As for kick serves, watch Stefan Edberg. All he hit were kicks. He lived and died by them. He was wonderful to watch.