There comes a time in every tennis player's life when they realize that they need a new racket. Perhaps the old ones are starting to feel a bit dead, having lost some of their elasticity, or...

At all levels of the sport, players have to abide by a set of rules during play. These rules will set out the scoring system, the way points are won and lost, along with the requirements for courts...

For many of us, our first experience of the game of tennis is gained from watching the world's best players battling it out for a major trophy on television. The highest profile tournaments, and the...

Modern racket technology and technique have evolved in such a way that players now serve harder on average than ever before. The various governing bodies have made efforts to slow the game down by...

In many ways, the strings are the most important part of your tennis racket, being the only part which normally makes contact with the ball. However good the mechanics of your shots, and however...

In France in the 1870s, Pierre Babolat had established a business making strings for musical instruments. In 1875, he turned his attention to the newly established game of lawn tennis and began...