Срезка прошла низко над сеткой.

Here срезка is a sports term. It usually refers to a slice, chop, or cut shot—a shot played with spin, often in tennis, table tennis, or a similar racket sport.

So in this sentence, срезка is the subject of the sentence: the shot itself.

It is a feminine noun, which matters for the verb form.

Because the subject срезка is feminine.

In the past tense, Russian verbs agree with the subject in gender and number:

• masculine: прошёл
• feminine: прошла
• neuter: прошло
• plural: прошли

Since срезка is feminine singular, the verb is прошла.

In Russian sports language, пройти / проходить is often used for a ball, shot, pass, or stroke that gets through, goes across, or passes in a certain way.

So Срезка прошла... means something like:

• The slice went...
• The slice passed...
• The shot travelled...

It sounds natural in Russian commentary or description of play. English often uses went, came, passed, or just describes the shot more directly.

Прошла is past tense of the perfective verb пройти.

That means it describes a completed single event: the shot passed low over the net.

If you used the imperfective проходила, it would usually suggest something repeated, ongoing, or descriptive in a different way, which would sound less natural here for one specific shot.

Низко is an adverb, meaning low.

It describes how the shot passed:

• прошла как? — низко
  How did it pass? — Low

You would use an adjective like низкая only if you were directly describing a noun:

• низкая сетка = a low net
• низкая траектория = a low trajectory

But here we are describing the verb прошла, so Russian uses the adverb низко.

Also, низкоя is not a Russian word.

Над here means above / over, and with that meaning it normally takes the instrumental case.

So:

• сетка = net
• над сеткой = over the net

That is why сетка becomes сеткой.

This is a very common pattern:

• над столом = over the table
• над городом = over the city
• над морем = over the sea

They mean slightly different things.

• над сеткой = over the net, focusing on height/position above it
• через сетку = across the net / through to the other side of the net, focusing more on crossing from one side to the other

In this sentence, низко над сеткой emphasizes that the shot passed just above the net, which is a very natural sports description.

So над сеткой is the better choice if the important idea is that the ball cleared the net by only a small margin.

It describes the path of the shot.

You can think of it as two pieces working together:

• низко = low
• над сеткой = over the net

Together: low over the net

So the sentence structure is:

• Срезка — subject
• прошла — verb
• низко над сеткой — adverbial description of how/where the shot went

No, Russian word order is fairly flexible, though some orders sound more natural than others.

Срезка прошла низко над сеткой is a normal neutral order.

Other possible orders could be:

• Срезка низко прошла над сеткой
• Низко над сеткой прошла срезка

But those may sound more marked, literary, or emphatic depending on context.

For a straightforward sports description, the original order is very natural.

Usually it sounds strongly sport-related, because срезка is a technical sports word in this meaning.

Outside sports, срезка can have other meanings in other contexts, but in a sentence with над сеткой, most learners should understand it as a shot going over a net in a game.

So yes, context matters, but this sentence strongly points to a sports situation.

The stress is:

• сре́зка
• прошла́
• ни́зко
• над
• се́ткой

So roughly:

SRYEZ-ka pra-shLA NEEZ-ka nad SYET-kay

A few helpful notes:

• ср at the start of срезка may feel tricky for English speakers.
• прошла has stress on the last syllable.
• сеткой ends with the instrumental ending -ой, pronounced roughly like -oy.

You can understand it word for word, but a more natural English translation may need adjustment.

Word by word:

• Срезка = slice/chop shot
• прошла = went/passed
• низко = low
• над сеткой = over the net

Natural English versions might be:

• The slice went low over the net.
• The shot passed low over the net.
• The slice just cleared the net.

That last version is not literal, but it often matches the idea well.