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Nadia Truong.

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Gear ·6 min · June 2026

Tennis Towels: Microfiber vs. Cotton Terry vs. Waffle Weave, Compared

A towel is the cheapest piece of gear in your bag and the one you reach for most. Between points, on changeovers, before a serve when your palm has gone slick — the right tennis towels do quiet…

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Gear ·5 min · June 2026

Are Thorlo Tennis Socks Worth the Premium? Reading the Evidence Before You Pay Triple

Here is the question, asked plainly, the way you have probably asked it standing in a pro shop holding a single pair that costs as much as a six-pack of the ones in your drawer: can a tennis sock…

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Film ·9 min · June 2026

Underrated Tennis Movies: Seven Films That Earn the Word "Overlooked"

There is a familiar shape to the tennis-movie list: rank the titles by Rotten Tomatoes score, lead with the prestige biopic everyone already streamed, and call it curation.

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Racquets ·5 min · June 2026

Racquet Stiffness Is the Number Behind the Control vs Power Debate — Here's What RA 65 Actually Tells You

Start with one number: RA 65. It shows up over and over as the rough line brands and testers draw between a "control" frame and a "power" frame.

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Coaching ·6 min · June 2026

Tennis Coach Appreciation: What the Better Gift Guides Get Wrong

Two seasons ago, our junior program ran a quiet experiment without meaning to. The team — eleven players, ages fourteen to seventeen — pooled money for the head coach at the end of the spring season.

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Serve ·5 min · June 2026

Does Lower String Tension Actually Give You a Bigger Serve? What the Evidence Says About Power and Reach

Few setup choices generate more conflicting advice at the pro-shop counter than string tension, and serve power is where that advice gets loudest.

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Technique ·6 min · June 2026

Trophy Position: The One Checkpoint in Tennis Serve Technique That Actually Predicts Power

Search "trophy position" and you get a wall of nearly identical photographs: a player frozen mid-serve, tossing arm pointing at the ball, racquet arm cocked back like a statue on a tournament trophy.

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Racquets ·5 min · June 2026

Tennis Racquet Pricing, Decoded: Why the $40 Frame and the $250 Frame Are Closer Than You Think

A more expensive tennis racquet is not a better racquet. It is a more specific one — built to do a narrower job for a player who already knows what that job is.

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Strings ·5 min · June 2026

Tennis String Review: How the Spin-Poly Myth Outran Its Evidence

There is a belief that runs through every poly-string thread on every tennis forum: that an aggressive baseliner who wants spin and control has to play a firm, shaped, low-power co-polyester, and has…