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Between 1960 and 1971, the men's singles title at the Australian Championships went to a home player every single year. Eleven straight.
Every two or three years a flagship spin frame arrives with a number attached. A new groove pattern, a reshaped beam, a softer layup, and somewhere in the launch deck a figure that suggests this…
You try a shoe on in the store. You walk a few laps of the carpet, do a couple of awkward little hops by the bench, and it feels right — snug at the heel, no pinch across the toes.
There is a number that should govern every vibration dampener review, and it is close to zero. Across the peer-reviewed work that has actually instrumented this question — most directly Stroede, Noble…
There is a belief that shows up in nearly every forum thread about a new frame: that the latest generation, or the "plus" or "tour" variant sitting next to the standard model on the wall, is a…
The advice gets repeated in every corner of the internet where rackets are discussed: you do not need to pay for coaching.
The week before the 2025 US Open, we printed the men's singles draw and did something that took ninety seconds and felt slightly grim: we counted the Americans. Eleven in the 128.
Babolat's Custom Damp ships with Rafael Nadal's name attached and a small bag of rubber inserts, which is exactly the kind of pairing that makes us suspicious.
There is a sound a crowd makes when a player turns their back to the net, spreads their legs, and flicks the ball over their own head toward an opponent they cannot see.
The story everyone tells about American tennis is a story about men, and it ends in 2003. That is the year Andy Roddick won the US Open and became, to date, the last American man to win a Grand Slam…