It was the sight of the tiny, tan, prehistoric weapon in my hand. A wooden tennis racquet will do that to people. Little kids in clinics giggle when you pull one out of your bag. Grizzled teaching ...

Are your days of competitive college tennis behind you and those expensive rackets are now collecting dust in the garage? Or perhaps you came across a beautiful vintage wooden whacker for cheap ...

Heavy and not very flexible - these are the characteristics that come to mind when you think of the wooden rackets used by ...

The art of crafting a table tennis racket requires precision and skill. Every step, from selecting materials to shaping and assembling, is done with expert techniques. Layers of wood and rubber come ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Todd Martin used a vintage wooden racket to close out Michael Chang 8-5 on Friday night in the championship match of the Leeann Chin Challenge, the fourth event of the Champions ...

This paper gives an overview of the performance related issues of tennis equipment. Until the 1970s, tennis rackets were made out of wood—most commonly ash and beech. All had dimensions of 27 × 9 ...

"The Saber is a great example of this." So, the 37-square-inch head tennis racket was born, thanks to a wooden spoon. The main point behind the small head size is to get players to intently focus ...