Best Serve & Volley Players 🔥 Top 10 (ATP Tennis). 

1- Edberg 2- Rafter 3- Sampras Didn't watch mcenroe play.

@@danielblanco9473 reads well too

@@danielblanco9473 he was awesome

1. McEnroe 2. Laver 3. Edberg

1SAMPRAS 2 EDBERG 3 BECKER

agree.

Il tennis di Edberg era poesia ....poi a rete era sicuramente uno dei più forti di tutti i tempi ( il più forte non so , ed ero un suo gran tifoso ) ..ora , dopo Federer , il tennis e' brutto .....si va poco a rete , si gioca da fondo campo e si cerca di colpire la pallina sempre più forte !

So true

right, But it doesn't have the element of suprprize that McEnroes game has.

Agreed.@@NisseOhlsen

And , take note everyone - not one double handed backhand player on this list 😂

some of the best serve and volliers were single or became single handed backhanders.

Krajicek too, double handed backhand and grinder until he got tall.

@@VerbalKint cool, didn't know about Richard Krajicek

@@johnrenehan7406 Ivanisevic was a two-hander.

Sampras had a huge serve and probably the best second ball of all time. But on the fly, he didn't have the genius of Mc-Enroe and Edberg.

It's gotta be a whole lot better than the current slugfest 😆

Stefan was number 2 in the world in 1980?! You mean in Junior? He turned pro in 1983.

@@JohnDoe-dp4kx he wrote mid 1980´s, they played in 1987

Gilbert was always a jerk.

Yes

That's too long ago. Open Era would be a better gauge.

That is very true good point.

@@Riri-oj1zs too long ago ? what is that supposed to mean ? if you want to talk just about players from the open era onwards, that is fine. but that doesnt discount what players did previously.

The only one 👌

sorry but Stefan didn't have a good record against Becker. Only won 10 and lost 25.

@@TennisWorld1 Thanks, I stand corrected.

@@TennisWorld1 True but he won more of the GS finals they played together. And the one semifinal they played at GS

I see it that way too

Well described, thank you for the thoughtful words. I can understand you and yes, I miss the serve and volley game too.

That doesn’t make any sense

Who says that ?

@@TennisWorld1 Grand Slam finals Singles: 11 finals (6-5)Career finals Singles: 77 (41 titles, 36 runner-ups)Head-to-head record Edberg's record against top 10 ranked players Boris Becker 10-25 IVAN LENDL 14-13 United States Michael Chang 12-9 Sweden Mats Wilander 9-11 United States Brad Gilbert 15-4 Croatia Goran Ivanišević 9-10 Switzerland Jakob Hlasek 15-1 Germany Michael Stich 6-10 Czech Republic Miloslav Mečíř 10-5 United States Pete Sampras 6-8 France Guy Forget 7-6 United States John McEnroe 6-7 Spain Emilio Sánchez 9-3 United States Jimmy Connors 6-6 Austria Thomas Muster 10-0 Sweden Anders Järryd 9-2 United States Aaron Krickstein 7-4 Sweden Jonas Svensson 10-0 Australia Pat Cash 8-2 United States Jim Courier 4-6 Spain Sergi Bruguera 6-3 United States Johan Kriek 6-3 Czech Republic Petr Korda 4-5 United States Andre Agassi 3-6 South Africa Kevin Curren 7-1 United States Jimmy Arias 7-0 France Henri Leconte 6-1 Netherlands Richard Krajicek 3-4 United States Todd Martin 3-4 France Yannick Noah 6-0 United States Tim Mayotte 5-1 Ukraine Andriy Medvedev 4-2 France Cédric Pioline 4-2 Ecuador Andrés Gómez 4-0 South Africa Wayne Ferreira 3-1 Czech Republic Karel Nováček 3-1 Australia Patrick Rafter 3-0 Russia Yevgeny Kafelnikov 1-2 Sweden Joakim Nyström 0-3 United Kingdom Tim Henman 2-0 Argentina Alberto Mancini 2-0 Sweden Henrik Sundström 1-1 Argentina José Luis Clerc 1-0 Spain Carlos Moyá 1-0 Chile Marcelo Ríos 1-0 United Kingdom Greg Rusedski 1-0 United States Eliot Teltscher 1-0 Sweden Jonas Björkman 0-1

@@fanssolperez3430 yes against Becker 10:25...against Sampras 6:8 and against McEnroe 6:7. All three were serve and volley players. So why should Stefan be the best serve and volley player?

@@TennisWorld1 The defeats with Sampras were at the end of his career, at his peak he clearly beat him. ​

@@fanssolperez3430 Stefan won 10 times and lost 25 against Boris... I don't know if you can call him the best serve and volley player. Sampras won 14 Grand Slams with serve and volley and Stefan only won 6. I think everyone sees it differently.

I agree to you, Boris Becker for me was the technically perfect player, he mastered all the shots, any of them were really good. His problem was physically, very prone to muscle injuries, and especially the mental part, where over the years he lost consistency. John Mcenroe is perhaps the coolest player, with the most talent and the most personality there has ever been, but like perfumes, they are served in small containers, and his reign only lasted two or three years (1982-84), then he was gradually diluting.

If it was just about success, then I agree with you. But that's not the point here. This is about the best serve and volley player... and of course the serve is part of it. For example, if I compare Laver's serve with Krajicek's, there is a world of difference. Sorry.

It was the racquets, not Agassi. If Agassi killed serve and volley, why did he always lose to Sampras?

Everyone probably sees it differently

@@TennisWorld1 Not everyone who understands the technique of tennis. Edberg volley is fantastic and perfect textbook, But McEnroe volley is magic and beyond. Mac #1 for sure.

If you look at what Rod has won with serve and volley, he should be in first place. But...it was more like the beginnings of serve and volley. I do not want to say more. Kind regards and thank you for your comment.

@@TennisWorld1that makes no sense. He should be in first place then.

@@vgr112261 who?

Did Borg really play serve and volley at Wimbledon? is new to me

@@TennisWorld1 Almost every first serve and some 2nd serves.

@@marktace1 I only know Borg from the baseline

@@marktace1 Just watched Borg v McEnroe - 1980 Wimbledon Final...in fact Borg is playing serve and volley

Watch old matches of Borg on different surfaces and although he wasn't serve and volleying all the time, he was coming to the net an awful lot. He probably did hit the ball from the baseline alot more than others but compared to recent times, Borg would be classed as a net rusher. Even think of clay court players as playing from the baseline but watching replays of guys from the 70s playing on clay, they came to the net quite alot, probably more than guys today come to the net on grass. The game has changed alot.

Yes, Pat Cash's volley was great, but unfortunately his serve wasn't that good.

He wasn't a better volleyer than Rafter.

Rafter, with McEnroe and Edberg, is one of the best 3 volleyers of all time

and 3th ?

à quoi ressemblent tes trois premiers?

@@TennisWorld1 Dans le désordre, Edberg, Cash, McEnroe

Yes, John Newcombe too, of course they were the forerunners of serve and volley. This offensive tennis was then developed to perfection in the 1980s and 1990s by players such as John McEnroe, Stefan Edberg, Boris Becker and Pete Sampras.

you can leave it like that

Agree, Mac’s half-volleys were out of this world.

@@Zenoandturtle Absolutely agree. Mac is for me the best net player ever! Volley, half-volley, touch and reaction were on another level!

He truly was a genius. In 1985 he took a 5 month sabbatical and when he came back he was never the same. He won his last grand slam at 1985 US Open, he was only 25. Strange indeed. But in my book he was the greatest player ever, and he should have won 1984 French Open against Lendl in 4 sets.

@@Zenoandturtle his last singles Grand Slam was the 1984 US Open but yes after he took time out he was never quite the same

If you compare the volleys of Rod Laver and, for example, Boris Becker, or the serve, then you will definitely understand why Rod is not on this list.

All I have to say in Rod's defense is, 2 Grand Slams. No one has done that. Budge has one, and Novak should have another. He held all four in a row, just not in one calendar year @@TennisWorld1

@@georgemelech8846 As I said, not here in this list, sorry

Yes, that's right

He actually didn't. He wasn't a pure S/V player. Stayed back on the second serve in Wimbledon 2003. Still my favorite player (and Edberg).

that's quite possible

Agree, in fact many tennis experts say that Stich was even better than Edberg.

The Dutch was clearly better than Stich, Cash is debatable but he suffered injuries that affected his career.

Stich better than Edberg is absurd!

@@JohnRome-xn7hx Nothing indicates that Krajicek was better than Stich. Stich was even 8-6 H2H and had additional GS finals. Stich was a massive talent.

McEnroe was so awesome

Edberg???

@@sonlampham9685 4. Edberg

Many people have different opinions, but that's a good thing.

Great selection, Roger is of course not a pure serve and volley player, but he still plays serve and volley brilliantly.

Federer c'est pas un serveur-volleyeur

@@edwigechristian2996 C'est vrai, mais bien sûr, Roger peut aussi jouer au service et à la volée. Même très bien

I think your comment nails the whole debate. Combined serve and volley, the big serve of players like Sampras and Becker counts a lot. Pure volley it is Edberg, McEnroe and Rafter (slightly behind due to less GS and shorter career). None of them served very fast. McEnroe had the difficult left hand serve, Edberg the weakest serve which makes his volleys all that more impressive. Edberg and Rafter covered the net better.

but a worse serve. This is about serve and volley and not just volley 😇

maybe you are right

Edberg's backhand and backhand volley is unmatched by any players Mac included.

@@jliang70 Mac was also overall better player than Edberg in both singles and doubles.

And keep dreaming that Edberg hit better volleys than Mac lol

@@michaelrobbins282 better? Just with a slim margin of 1 slam, keep dreaming, he could not handle lendl after 85

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I'm not going to say anything ;-)

Edberg at 5? "2 Cash 3 Rafter 4 Stich 5 Edberg" How? Edberg had 4 GS titles on grass. Clearly the superior S/V player. Everybody knows that.