Serving – When you are standing with both of your feet just behind the baseline, you are going to want to take up a sideways type of stance. You should be keeping the left foot pointing in the direction of the net post on the right hand side. The left hand should be holding the [...]

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The quality of the strings that you use on your tennis racquet really does matter. The following tennis string guide should give you a basic starting point for choosing and using the right strings for your tennis racquet. Keep in mind that tennis strings are available with a wide variety of different thicknesses and the [...]

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Go Play Tennis: Read it, Watch it, Do it is by Rolf Flichtbeil, and is part of the Read it, Watch it, Do it series of books. What makes this a unique book on the subject of tennis is the fact that it is a fully integrated book that incorporates both the book and an [...]

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Racquet – Wilson K Factor Six One Tour 90 Length – 27 inches / 69 centimeters Head Size – 90 square inches / 581 square centimeters Weight – 12.5 ounces / 354 grams Balance Point – 12.375 inches / 9pts Head Light Construction – 18 mm Straight Beam Composition – nCoded High Modulus Graphite / [...]

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Most of the tennis racquets of today are made using a carbon fiber composite material. These unique carbon fiber composite materials have an excellent strength to weight ratio, and what this does is allows for developing the very popular oversized racquets and oversized racquet heads. Some of these tennis racquets are filled with a polyurethane [...]

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Here are some helpful tennis tips that will give you some perspective on improving your serve. Remember that different tennis tips are going to help different players in unique ways. The true key is going to lie in your ability to try out different tips and techniques until you find the ones that are going [...]

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… Continued from More Tennis Tips pt 2. This is part three in our weekly tennis tips series. Here are some more invaluable tips that will help you improve all aspects of your tennis game. You should swing your racket back until the point where the tip is barely touching the wall, and you should [...]

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Tennis shoes, which also referred to gym shoes or athletic shoes, are designed primarily to handle sporting activities and other strenuous activities. Tennis shoes are also referred to in other ways depending on where in the world you are. In the U.K., tennis shoes are known as trainers. In Canada, tennis shoes are runner shoes, [...]

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Court – The length of the tennis court is 78 feet and the width of the tennis court is 27 feet when dealing with singles matches. For doubles matches, the length remains the same but the court is 36 feet in width. The court is divided along its middle with the tennis net. There are [...]

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Although tennis may not be a full contact sport, it is still possible to get injured. One of the most common injuries that tennis players face is called tennis elbow. This is a repetitive strain injury that can be incredibly painful. The good news is that you can prevent it, or at the very least, [...]

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