Whipping his racquet through the air like a cesta in jai alai, Rafael Nadal produces such tremendous topspin that the ball sometimes seems to catapult off the court, creating a shot as challenging to ...

Sheep intestine launched the technological advancements of tennis strings. But that was 145 years ago and the tech making strings has advanced well beyond the sheep intestine natural gut first ...

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 ...

With 70 percent of today’s Top 20 ATP tour players stringing their racquets with its polyester-based string, Luxilon Industries is no longer best known for making fiber products such as medical ...

MIAMI GARDENS, Florida — Daniil Medvedev had a problem. For the better part of five years, his career had followed an ever-upward arc that carried him to the No 1 ranking in February of 2022. Then ...

The Boulder-based tennis company Velociti has launched a second biodegradable tennis string for beginners after the success of its first professional-grade string. Velociti was founded by University ...

On Tuesday, I went to the US Open, the premier US tennis tournament and, along with Wimbledon and the Australian and French Opens, one of the four ‘Grand Slams’ of the tennis world. I’m also a player ...

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 ...