Watch someone who is new to tennis and I guarantee they will be struggling with the serve. The net seems really high, and the service box really small, and a…
As a new tennis player I am literally scared of “new balls”. My observation was that I played badly and invariably lost with new balls. In particular I usually hit…
If you haven’t noticed tennis is a highly traditional. Same old school scoring, same etiquette, same Wimbledon whites. And the same 27" racket for virtually everyone! Maybe it’s time to…
Can you serve 100mph? If you can you are way better than me! 100mph was a great serve in the 1960s and 1970s. The book “Fundamentals of Tennis” (Pagenhoef 1970) lists…
When you look down a microscope at a tennis string, you see the remarkable hidden structure. The string itself only 1.2mm across contains hundreds of micro strings bonded together. Each…
In one survey of almost 1000 tennis players who had played for 10 years, 41% had experienced tennis elbow. In another survey of 3000 players [ Priest et al 1980]…
In 1875 Lyon, France, Pierre Babolat was making strings for musical instruments when he found tennis. He lived next to several abattoirs and decided to use natural sheep gut.
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In 2003 a host of 34 retired players including John McEnroe, Martina Navratilova, Boris Becker and Pat Cash signed an open letter to International Tennis Federation president Francesco Ricci Bitti…