Beginner tennis players need guidance on racquet selection, string types, and essential gear. Find practical reviews and buying protocols here.
Somewhere in your first month of tennis, a coach or a commentator says something that sounds like a different language.
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.
If you have watched tennis for years without ever holding a racquet, you have probably absorbed three beliefs about taking it up: that you are too old, that it costs too much, and that you lack the…
Here is a number that has confused more newcomers than any other in sport: 40. Not 45, which is what you would expect if a game ran 15, 30, 45.
Most people who own a tennis racquet inherited the decision rather than made it. The frame came from a relative, a sporting-goods clearance bin, or a coach who handed over whatever was in the bag.
We handed the same lesson to one player twice. First with a Head Ti.S6 we bought for $35, then forty minutes later with a Babolat Pure Aero that retails north of $230.