At one time or another, the Top Spin series has managed to be all three.
The smooth controls of Top Spin 2 were replaced by an incredibly clunky scheme.
After mastering top spin, you can hit it hard and still keep it within the lines.
Without top spin, it floats, and you have to ease up to keep the ball in the court.
So the slice is effective on clay ... and you can also produce a lot of top spin.
Tony does not see why his top spin doctor should be trashed in public by his own party.
Was it going to be another overwrought and ultimately unsatisfying Top Spin 3?
That's what happens when you see the ball bounce really high at Roland Garros during a top spin rally.
So when a review copy of Top Spin 4 recently landed on my desk, I greeted it with mixed emotions.
Top Spin 3 was released in the summer of 2008 and is easily the worst tennis video game I have ever played.
Harbhajan established his reputation as one of the world's top spin bowlers by taking 32 wickets in three home Tests against Australia in 2001.
Practice enough with your slice or your top spin shots and you will find yourself effortlessly painting the lines and leaving your opponent wrong-footed and stumbling.
The 2006 sequel, Top Spin 2, the first of the series published by Take-Two Interactive subsidiary 2K Sports, may have be the best tennis video game ever made.
In career mode, where you create a character and try and advance up the world rankings, you start off pretty slow and you will shank lots of easy shots, much like in Top Spin 3.
He smiled when he let rip a top-spin backhand, and he even smiled when he netted a volley.
He held on until 3-3 but with Nadal pulling him wide with his top-spin forehand, he succumbed and dropped the set.
Addressing the tennis ball as if playing a golf shot, McIlroy tried surprise tactics on Sharapova by quickly starting a rally with a top-spin forehand.
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Newton top scored with 60 and spin bowler Birch claimed 4-22 as they came out on top by 99 runs in the second match in Colombo.
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It did not affect South Africa's momentum, however, and Boucher had a century there for the taking when he tried to slog-sweep Sehwag's off-spin and top-edged a catch to slip.
I've had three world-class, top-level performances on the spin and I'm going in against Kessler with that in the bank.
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Research by the USGA has shown that U-shaped grooves allow top players to generate much more spin when playing the ball out of the rough, making the ball come to a quick stop on the green.
Christie's felt sure it could top that, and revved up its spin machine.
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It should never be allowed to spin out of control, or to become the sole, or even the top priority.
Medium-pacer Martin-Jenkins trapped Dinesh Karthik lbw and saw Gautam Gambhir top-edge an attempted cut to backward point, while Michael Yardy's left-arm spin removed Kumble and Sreesanth with successive balls in the first over after lunch to leave India in disarray.
You won't twirl the car like a top, but at the same time it is possible to slide the back end out a tad, and to spin the tires on takeoff.
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