The advice gets handed down at every club like a family recipe: if you've got real technique and you want control, buy a heavier, lower-powered frame with a flexible beam and a smaller head, and the…
There is a tennis racquet you are not allowed to hit a ball with. It is set with more than 1,700 diamonds, it was valued at roughly $1.3 million, and for a few years in the early 2000s it sat in a…
A thinner string can be the cheaper option over a season. That sentence runs against the instinct every intermediate player develops the first time a thin string snaps mid-rally — thin equals fragile…
I restrung one frame twice. Same racquet, same 53-pound reference tension on the same machine, but one bed went in as a full set of polyester and the other as a soft multifilament.
You have probably noticed it without being able to name it. You play a clean, confident match on your home hard court on Tuesday, then turn up to a clay court on Saturday and feel like you have…
There is a piece of advice that circulates in club locker rooms and gets repeated on every gear forum: when your handle starts to feel slick and hard, just wrap a fresh overgrip over the top and you…
A privacy policy is the most honest document a tennis website publishes. Not because companies want it to be — because regulators force the disclosure, and the lawyers who write it have more to lose…
A reader sent us two product pages last month and asked, plainly, why one skirt cost twice the other when "they look identical." We did what we do at this desk: we put the published specs side by…
The advice you will hear in every pro shop and on every forum thread goes roughly like this: heavier racquets give you power and stability, lighter racquets give you maneuverability, and you should…