Vibration dampeners are the cheapest thing in the bag and the most over-explained. Players who have spent a season fine-tuning string tension and swingweight will drop a five-dollar rubber button…
The grip that feels most unnatural in your hand is the one tennis started with. Everything else came later. That is the part most lesson plans skip.
The between-the-legs shot gets the highlight reel and the slow-motion replay and the commentator who forgets words for a second. It is the tennis shot everyone clips.
In the first round at Wimbledon in 2010, John Isner hit 113 aces in a single match. Mahut hit 103. The match ran 11 hours and 5 minutes across three days and finished 70-68 in the fifth set.
There is a sentence you will hear in nearly every conversation about American tennis history: that the United States produced an unbroken line of champions until the 1990s, and then the well went dry.…
For roughly two decades, buying a Barricade meant accepting a deal. You got a fortress around your foot — the kind of lateral stability that lets you load a wide forehand and trust the shoe not to…
There is a tidy idea that gets repeated on coaching blogs and in pub conversation: a tennis court is just a rectangle, 78 feet by 36, with a net down the middle.
The short version: a full western forehand grip produced roughly 12–18% more measured topspin than a semi-western in our hitting sessions, but cost the same testers about one in five low balls they…
The Wilson Pro Staff 97 v13 is the first iteration in three generations that we'd hand to a control player without an apology — the removal of Countervail restores the frame's signature feedback, but…