Tension behaviour, gauge effects, hybrid maths, snapback, and the rest of the stringbed mechanics worth knowing.
Natural gut is the only string most club players have never strung and still have an opinion about. It is the most expensive material on the wall — often $40 to $50 a set before labor — and it carries…
The advice you will hear, repeated in pro shops and on forums with the certainty of gravity, is that natural gut is the best string money can buy. Full stop. Federer used it.
The first tennis drills for beginners should not involve hitting a tennis ball with the strings. That is the claim, and we mean it literally: for the first thirty to forty-five minutes a new player…
The first point of a tennis game is called 15. Not one. Not first. Fifteen. A player who has won exactly one point in the current game has a score of 15, and if you have never watched tennis before…
A father sat next to me at a 12-and-under tournament last spring, leaned over, and asked what "thirty-fifteen" meant. His daughter was serving. The scoreboard had just flipped.