Every June the same claim resurfaces. A heritage brand debuts a white capsule at Queen's Club or Wimbledon, the press materials describe apparel "engineered for grass-court competition," and the gear…
The advice you'll hear in every stringing shop and club Facebook group goes like this: if your dampener keeps falling out mid-match, buy one made of "moisture-wicking" or sweat-resistant material…
Reviewer note: I'll open in first person, because this piece started with a specific, slightly embarrassing moment.
Sixty-five. That's the number this tennis racquet review is built around — the RA stiffness rating that sits on nearly every spec sheet, gets thrown around in every forum argument, and quietly drives…
If you ask a stringer, a coach, or a pro-shop counter clerk what tennis strings an intermediate player with a sore elbow should buy, there is a better-than-even chance the answer is Wilson Sensation.
Anyone who has stood in a sporting-goods aisle holding two pairs of shorts — one labeled "moisture-wicking," one not, with a $15 price gap between them — has asked the same question: is this a real…
The number that reframed how we think about stringing for flat hitters is this: in Tennis Warehouse University's bench testing, published by physicist Crawford Lindsey, typical polyester tennis…
If you've stood in a pro shop staring at a wall of Babolat racquets wondering whether Pure Drive, Pure Aero, and Pure Strike are three genuinely different frames or three shades of the same…
The most consequential decision in tennis apparel design over the past decade wasn't made by a designer.