NEW YORK -- It was a modest 97-mile-an-hour serve, but Karolina Muchova sprinted in behind it, stretched and dropped an exquisite backhand volley into the open court. The sequence took less than five ...

In one service game in the second set, Muchova produced two volley winners, an ace, and a devilish slice to hold to love. A discomfited Osaka could only flub the last one into the net ...

As she scampered along the baseline, Pegula invariably found herself having to hit up on the ball, and there was the waiting Muchova ready to flick away a volley. Underlining the contrast between ...

Czech Karolina Muchova delivered a flawless display of serve-and-volley tennis to knock twice champion Naomi Osaka out of the U.S. Open with a 6-3 7-6(5) second-round victory on Thursday.

Muchova, the stylistic descendant of the eclectic Ash Barty, came painfully close to winning Roland Garros in 2023 and this year was within a makeable forehand volley of progressing to the US Open ...

But after Muchova failed to convert on a second break of serve — missing a fairly routine stretch volley on break point — momentum completely shifted. ''I was thinking, alright that was kind ...