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Kalinskaya is one of the few players near the top of the WTA swinging a Yonex VCORE 98 rather than the EZONE 98 that dominates the brand's tour bag — and that single choice tells you most of what you…
The Head Gravity Pro paint job on Rublev's frame is, by most stringer accounts, hiding a pro-stock mold he's used for years — not the racquet hanging in your local shop with the same cosmetic.
The fastest mover on tour does not play a light, spin-bias frame — he plays a control stick strung tight with a full bed of polyester, and the reason is the part of his game people stop watching after…
Soft is not the same as arm-friendly. The cheapest, mushiest multifilament on the wall at your local shop will feel like a pillow on day one and a hammer on day twelve, because once a multi…
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 club player we know spent two weeks deciding between a Babolat Pure Aero 98 and a Wilson Blade 98 v9.
Here is a claim a lot of well-meaning parents have heard, sometimes from a club pro, sometimes from a YouTube video: teach the Eastern forehand grip and the full swing first, and the rest follows.
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.