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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For those old enough to remember watching tennis in the 1980s and 1990s, it was a rare occurrence to see a player smash a racquet during or after a match. In the modern era, it is almost a daily ...