became players well known for their serve-and-volley style. More recently, players such as Martina Hingis, Justine Henin, and Amélie Mauresmo were willing to come to the net, with Henin and Mauresmo playing a very heavy serve and volley style and volleying in general match during the 2006 Wimbledon Finals. Later in her career Henin was also known for serving and volleying on set and match points, such as on Championship point at the 2007 US Open Final against Svetlana Kuznetsova. Serve-and-volley in the twenty-first century Although the strategy has become less common in both the men's and women's game, a few players still prefer to approach the net on their serves in the twenty-first century. Examples of active male players who employ serve-and-volley as the chief style of play include: Feliciano López, Nicolas Mahut, Rajeev Ram, Ivo Karlović, Dustin Brown, Pierre-Hugues Herbert, Maxime Cressy, Łukasz Kubot, and Mischa Zverev. On the women's side, serve-and-volley has become almost extinct at the very top level. Taylor Townsend and Hsieh Su-wei are the only active notable (WTA elite) players that prefers to play with this style. Other players, despite not being pure serve-and-volleyers, do employ serve-and-volley as a surprise tactic. Examples include John Isner, Rafael Nadal, and Daniil Medvedev. The removal of grass surfaces from major tournaments and the change in 2001 of Wimbledon's grass to encourage higher bounces have reduced the efficacy of this playing style. Views on serve-and-volley Bill Tilden, the dominant player of the 1920s and one of the fathers of the cannonball serve, nevertheless preferred to play from the backcourt and liked nothing better than to face an opponent who threw powerful serves and groundstrokes at him and who rushed the net — one way or another Tilden would find a way to hit the ball past him. Tilden spent a great amount of time analyzing the game of tennis. His book Match Play and the Spin of the Ball (1925) is still in print. In it, Tilden states that a perfect baseline player will always beat a perfect serve-and-volleyer 6–0 because his returns of service will be winning passing shots; however he also states that of course neither such a player can exist. Tilden used this style of play for many years. Some of the most interesting matches of all time according to Pat Cash have pitted great baseliners such as Björn Borg, Mats Wilander or Andre Agassi