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STORY: Hybrid String for Tennis Racquets – An Experiment
I don’t know how long ago I first heard about hybrid strings. Over the last year or so, it seems that everybody is talking about them and even the magazines are starting to write about them.
If you don’t already know, hybrid strings refers to using two different types of strings to string a tennis racquet: [...]
STORY: Beginning Tennis – What to Expect from Your First Lesson
I’ve never been good with a racket. Or a bat. Or a ball. Basically, if I have to use equipment other than a good pair of running shoes or a pair of goggles, I’m a disaster. When I was on the track team in high school, I dreaded the relay because in order to hand [...]
STORY: My On-Again, Off-Again Affair with Tennis
Thwack! When Roger Federer recently hit the winning stroke of his fifth consecutive U.S. Open victory, I watched him collapse onto the court in bliss and I felt my own adrenaline pumping, too. Not because I’m a Federer fan (though I am), but because I really wanted to get out on the nearest court and [...]