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 ...

When you think about "tennis history", you probably imagine wooden racquets. Several players, including Alex de Minaur, Denis Kudla, Marcos Baghdatis, Christian Harrison, Jordan Thompson and ...

What many have considered the first "Golden Age of Tennis" created the sport's massive popularity boom and helped launch the ...

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 ...

Big racquets have bigger 'sweet spots' but are harder to control. A 'sweet spot' is the area in the middle of the strings which gives the cleanest hit. A mid-size racquet has a hitting area of about ...

The name tennis is said to come from the French word 'Tenez ... Some accounts say that by the 13th century there were as many as 1,800 indoor courts. By 1500, a wooden frame racket laced with gut ...