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A tennis community will not make you better at tennis. Not directly. We want to say that plainly before we spend the rest of this piece earning the right to have said it, because almost every…
Most fans, asked to name the longest tennis match ever, reach for one fixture: John Isner versus Nicolas Mahut, Wimbledon 2010, 11 hours and 5 minutes across three days, finishing 70–68 in the fifth.
On a Saturday in March we took a mid-range battery-powered ball machine to a public hard court, fully charged the night before, and counted feeds.
There is no single best hard court shoe, and the honest version of this article is a method for finding yours rather than a trophy handed to one model.
The number we kept coming back to is 0.42 millimeters. That is roughly how much one quality overgrip adds to the radius of a handle — which works out to about 1/16 inch of added circumference, or…
The advice you have probably heard goes like this: if the ball clips the net on a serve and still lands in, you call "let" and serve again. Clean, tidy, done.
Buying a first racquet for a child is one of the few tennis purchases where the right answer is almost entirely measurable. Get the length right and most of the anxiety disappears.
The forehand grip that produces the most topspin is, for almost everyone we put on a ball machine, the wrong grip to learn.
You've hit a clean ball for two sets. Then somewhere in the third — maybe at 2-2, maybe earlier — the legs go quiet. The first step to the wide ball arrives late.
A tennis elbow brace is the rare piece of gear that can be the correct purchase and a total failure at the same time. The strap is right. The padding is right.