Walk into a stringing shop or open any forum thread and you meet the same wall: roughly twenty brands, a dozen overlapping specs, and a recurring piece of advice for the improving player — buy a…
Pick up a pack of premium multifilament and somewhere on the back you will find a comfort claim with a number attached — Tecnifibre has marketed its multifilaments around "comfort and power," and…
For most of the last two years, one of the deepest national cohorts in women's tennis has competed under no flag at all.
You walk off the court after ninety minutes, and something has shifted. The argument you were rehearsing on the drive over has lost its grip. Your shoulders sit lower.
Here is a claim that runs against most first-day advice: for a new recreational player, almost nothing you buy can break the tennis rules.
When I lined up the current adidas court range against its own spec sheets and then against the brands most recreational shoppers never put in the cart, one number kept pulling my eye: durability.
The first live match I watched without anyone explaining it to me ended with a number I could not parse. The scoreboard read 7-6, and beneath the 6 sat a small superscript 3. I assumed it was a typo.
There is a reason coaches keep returning to the same small set of hand positions: the way you hold the handle sets the angle of the strings at the instant they meet the ball, and that angle decides…
You have probably stood in a pro shop, or hovered over a checkout page, and asked yourself the same thing every Federer fan eventually asks: if I buy the exact racquet he played, do I get any of what…