Good tennis string maintenance is not a date on a calendar — it is a function of how many hours you play, what string is in the racquet, and how attuned you are to the moment your control quietly…
There is a version of this shoe that lives in forum threads and pro-shop chatter: the Nike Air Zoom Vapor X is a fast, flimsy speed slipper — great for a teenager who weighs nothing and replaces shoes…
The number you have seen is 163.7 mph. Sam Groth, an Australian qualifier, hit it at a Challenger event in Busan, South Korea, in May 2012.
A shoe that weighs 40 grams less per foot does not, on its own, make you faster. It changes how much energy each stride costs, how hot your foot runs in a third set, and how soon the outsole gives…
Arthur Ashe Stadium seats 23,771 people. That is the number stamped on the US Open, repeated in broadcast graphics, and cited every time someone calls it the largest of the world's tennis stadiums.
A tennis community will not make you better at tennis. Not directly. We want to say that plainly before we spend the rest of this piece earning the right to have said it, because almost every…
Most fans, asked to name the longest tennis match ever, reach for one fixture: John Isner versus Nicolas Mahut, Wimbledon 2010, 11 hours and 5 minutes across three days, finishing 70–68 in the fifth.
Buying a first racquet for a child is one of the few tennis purchases where the right answer is almost entirely measurable. Get the length right and most of the anxiety disappears.
A tennis elbow brace is the rare piece of gear that can be the correct purchase and a total failure at the same time. The strap is right. The padding is right.