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If you're new to following tennis, the retired generation of female tennis players can feel like background noise — names you hear during broadcasts, see on stadium courts, or read in a player's "she…
We put one of our editors on a force-sensitive balance app, single leg, eyes open, dominant side, and asked her to hold still for thirty seconds.
There is a small, persistent belief in tennis fan culture: that the surest way to hold onto a championship moment is to get it signed onto a giant tennis ball.
Last September, watching the U.S. Open with the sound up, we heard a commentator use the phrase "Grand Slam" twice in under a minute, and mean two different things each time.
Watch a busy public court for an hour and you will see dozens of serves that break the same rule. Almost none get called.
There is a number that shows up, in slightly different costumes, in nearly every pitch for a tennis membership platform: hit a shot ten thousand times and it becomes automatic.
A friend of ours, a former conference-level singles player with three years as a high-performance junior coach, forwarded us an offer letter last spring.
You are down 30-40 on your own serve. You toss the ball, and somewhere between the toss and the contact a small committee convenes in your head and starts arguing.
You are standing at the back fence watching your first league match. The score reaches what sounds like a tie — both players have won three points — and someone calls out "deuce." A few seconds later…
If you play on clay more than a handful of times a season, you have probably felt it: the foot that should plant and instead keeps going, the slide that doesn't stop where you asked it to, the moment…
Walk into any racquet club with a sore outer elbow and you'll hear the same sentence within five minutes: get a compression sleeve, it'll help.
There is a number worth staring at before you spend anything: about $120. That is the gap between a competent budget tennis shoe — call it the $60 tier — and a current flagship court shoe at $180.