URGENT NEED FOR A NEW NON-FICTION BOOK EXPLORING THE DECLINE OF THE SERVE-AND-VOLLEY GAME IN PROFESSIONAL TENNIS

I used to find it fascinating to watch televised professional tennis matches and attend live professional singles tennis matches that featured a serve-and-volley-style professional tennis player competing against a professional tennis player with a baseline style.

These days, however, intriguing match-ups in professional tennis that highlight the serve-and-volley style versus the baseline style are apparently very rare.

The decline of the serve-and-volley game in professional tennis --- and the decline of the serve-and-volley vs. baseline tennis rivalry in tennis --- would make a fine subject for a new non-fiction book about professional tennis.

I'm reminded that in a recent prior year, I noticed the looks of exasperation and dismay and disgust on the faces of some former professional men's tennis champions from Australia---Roy Emerson among them-- as they sat in the stands at the Australian Open, watching Andy Murray, a Scottish professional men's tennis player, compete from the baseline against another highly-rated professional men's tennis player with a baseline style.

"So why in God's name won't our Scottish star Andy Murray rush to the net and volley the ball away for a winner?", former tennis champion Roy Emerson might as well have asked the entire world while holding a microphone from where he sat in the stands at that tournament.