Most weekend hackers might focus on the racket, assuming that if they could dip into a top pro's racket bag, they too could pummel the ball ... string bed causes vibrations that can aggravate ...

co-authored the book Technical Tennis: Racquets, Strings, Balls, Courts, Spin and Bounce with Crawford Lindsey. (Amazon Link is here: ) The work explores the physics of tennis and exposes some ...

Adam Queen's fingers nimbly slide across the empty face of the tennis ... this week. A racket whose strings don't have the proper tension won't enable the player to hit the ball like he wants.

To pass the time, they struck a ball ... tennis rackets. At the beginning of the decade, a German horticulturalist, Werner Fischer, invented the “spaghetti” racket, using a bizarre string ...

a trend that is due in no small part to modern tennis rackets, and which governing bodies are monitoring closely. The changes in racket construction make it easy to overlook the contribution of ...

and the ball gets the moisture and the clay, so the strings wear probably a little more." On a board outside the stringers' office, fans and casual tennis players can learn what type of racket ...