Choosing proper string tension—how tightly the strings are pulled in a frame—is just as important to your game as your racquet. Too low a tension will leave you hitting the back fence; too tight and ...

Adam Queen's fingers nimbly slide across the empty face of the tennis racket. The hole in the frame quickly fills as Queen, with a surgeon's precision, guides a 40-foot piece of synthetic white string ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Newcomb covers tennis gear/business, stadiums and shoe tech. Sheep intestine launched the technological advancements of tennis ...

When watching the pros at the U.S. Open hit with superhuman pace, it's natural to look for a shortcut to attain that kind of power. Most weekend hackers might focus on the racket, assuming that if ...

Tennis is such a simple game. There is a racket, a felt-covered ball, a net and a court. Compared to golf, with its ever- changing menu of high-power drivers, “hybrid” irons, rescue clubs and new-age ...

Researchers found increasing string tension placed greater load on the elbow Tennis elbow could be avoided by reducing the tension on racquet strings, according to Dundee University researchers. The ...

THE ALL ENGLAND CLUB, LONDON — On the first day of Wimbledon, Ed Day, a university student from just outside London, ran 17.5 kilometers across the All England Club. Those kilometers took him from the ...