Tennis Tips for Seniors and Every Tennis Lovers
Emma Raducanu was born in 2002 in Toronto, but her family moved to Bromley in England when she was 2 years old. She began playing tennis at the age of 5, and became a very highly rated junior player, although a strong focus on her academic studies prevented her from playing many senior international events …
Cameron Norrrie was born in 1995 to British parents in South Africa, but the family moved to the safer environment of New Zealand when he was 3: at 16, however, he emigrated to Great Britain where there would be more funding for his tennis career. Progress was initially unspectacular, so in 2014 he moved again, …
After several fairly bleak years in the 1980s, Britain enjoyed something of a tennis renaissance over the next few decades, featuring grand slam and Olympic triumphs. By September 2022, there were four British men in the top 50 of the ATP rankings and two women in the top 100 of the WTA list. In this …
Oversize vs Midplus Tennis Racquet, which one is right for me? So far in this series of articles, we have looked at the advantages and disadvantages of the two sizes of racquet that are most popular among both advanced and club players: oversize and midplus. In this article we will summarise some of the key …
Have you heard of midplus tennis racquet before? What exactly is this? As we have mentioned in other articles, the advent of materials like graphite and carbon fibre has enabled manufacturers to produce racquets of shapes and designs that were undreamt of during the era of wooden frames. They have experimented with many different sizes …
Looking for the best oversize tennis racquet? For many years, tennis racquets were wooden-framed, which meant that there was a practical limit to head size- as the thickness of wood necessary to make a large head (which would not crack) would have made the racquet excessively heavy. With the advent of graphite frames, this limitation …
String patterns are normally described in terms of the number of vertical ‘main’ strings, followed by the number of horizontal ‘cross’ strings. Typically each dimension will have somewhere between 16 and 20 strings. In this article we will contrast two of the most popular options: so, what do we need to bear in mind when …
In this article we will look at head light vs head heavy tennis racquets: which one is better? We normally choose tennis racquets by looking at their brands, weights, heads sizes, etc. However, whether a racquet is head light or head heavy is massively important in determining how it plays. This post will help you …
Tennis is a pretty simple game, based on hitting a ball over a net with a specially-designed racket into a standard sized court. You and your opponent(s) keep doing this until one of you either fails to hit the ball over the net or into the marked court area. Each point you win in this …
We all love hitting a tennis ball, but for many of us it is not just about hitting nice shots: we want to know how to win tennis matches. You will come across plenty of players who look really stylish on the practice court, but who don’t win many matches. A lot of the skills …