Jon Levey answers your Gear Q&A. Email your question to [email protected]. I thought only old-timers or players with tennis elbow still played with gut strings, but I recently heard that pro ...

Hybrid stringing is a staple of discerning tennis players. For the uninitiated, a hybrid is when two strings are combined into one string bed. Usually this is done with two somewhat dissimilar strings ...

Which tennis strings are best? Whether you’ve been playing for years or just started, finding a high-quality pair of tennis strings is a vital part of improving your game. Since the tension, gauge and ...

Professional tennis players call it “the Luxilon shot,” and, apparently, you can hear it coming. The ball crosses the net hissing and spitting like some enraged tropical insect. Its most lethal ...

Great tennis legends used to use heavy wooden rackets. Graphite arrived about 25 years ago. Since then, the technology hasn't change much. That is until now. More and more pros are using polyester ...

Just as a little spin, properly placed, can alter the course of a political campaign, so too does it affect the path of the ball in so many sports. In tennis, spin allows players to hit harder and ...

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 ...

Three names sell tennis rackets: Rafa, Roger and Roddick. Walk around the U.S. Open this year and you’ll notice the topspin-wielding heartthrob and world No. 1 Rafael Nadal playing with one of the ...