Once a blip on the racquet-spec radar, string pattern has become an increasingly important—and complicated—consideration. Here are a few things you should know about strings before your next racquet ...
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Tennis players now can change their game without changing their racquet thanks to an innovative grommet system introduced by HEAD. The Graphene XT Speed Rev Pro racquet ($199.95) features a new ...
Madeline Hauptman is an artist. She illustrates children’s books and paints realistically in oils. She’s also an avid tennis player. Years ago, while playing recreationally as a student at the ...
Professional tennis players call it “the Luxilon shot,” and, apparently, you can hear it coming. The ball crosses the net hissing and spitting like some enraged tropical insect. Its most lethal ...
Three names sell tennis rackets: Rafa, Roger and Roddick. Walk around the U.S. Open this year and you’ll notice the topspin-wielding heartthrob and world No. 1 Rafael Nadal playing with one of the ...
It was the bored monks of medieval France who invented the sport that has become one of the most captivating of modern times. To pass the time, they struck a ball against a wall, and then over a crude ...
A University of Colorado Boulder alum created what he says is the world’s first-ever 100% synthetic, biodegradable tennis string through his Boulder-based company Velociti. Ryan Burbary, who graduated ...