The common advice goes like this: a tennis service box is 21 feet long by 13.5 feet wide, and there are four of them, two per side, split by the centre service line. Coaches repeat it.
Most recreational players have asked some version of this question after a club match: the flat serve down the T that froze the returner on Saturday looked, on video, almost identical to the one that…
Here is the claim we are going to spend the rest of this article earning the right to make: the semi-western forehand grip is not, primarily, a topspin grip. It is a contact-height grip.
Most intermediate players we coach have, at some point, drifted into a grip that is neither one thing nor the other — somewhere between an eastern and a semi-western, set by accident rather than…
There is a number printed on the throat of the Wilson Pro Staff RF97 v13, repeated in every catalog, every spec table, every YouTube thumbnail: 340 grams. Unstrung.
Last Tuesday I strung a retail Head Speed MP at 52 lb with Luxilon ALU Power 16L — the numbers most often associated with Taylor Fritz — and hit with it for an hour before my usual session.
Paula Badosa swings a 16x19 Wilson Blade 98 — the more open of the two Blade string patterns, and the one most often associated with players who want a bit of help with spin, not the flatter 18x20…
Andreeva plays a Head Speed — the frame most viewers file under "Sinner, flat, first-strike" — and then strings it with Solinco Hyper-G, the gritty co-poly that club players reach for when they want…
Musetti — the most romantic one-handed backhand on tour, the player whose game looks transplanted from 1998 — does not swing a flexy player's frame.