Watching from home, tennis courts from different events can often appear different in size. This is due to a whole array of reasons including camera angle, position, the camera’s distance from the players and even the type of court. That said, in nearly all circumstances, tennis courts are the same size. At least, that’s the …
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Right. Checklist time. You’ve got your racket. Check. You’ve got your trainers. Check. You’ve got your tennis balls. Check. You’ve even got your specially purchased Roger Federer bandana. Check. You’re all set to go and you are certifiably excited. You can’t wait. You’ve built this moment up in your head and now it’s finally here! …
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So you have all your tennis equipment ready to go. You’ve spent time re-stringing your rackets, re-lacing your shoes and re-washing you tennis shirts, just in case they still have that fresh out the packet musk to them. You feel like you’re ready now, to take the courts to take on all-comers. Even Roger Federer …
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Picture the scene: You’re standing there, on the tennis court, in utter devastation. You’ve just lost one of the longest matches of your budding young career. As you walk to the net to shake hands with your opponent, you think about all that has lead you to this moment, all the sacrifices that your parents …
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Tennis is undoubtedly an incredible game to watch. Thousands descend to the courts each year to watch the best players in the world duke it out in nail-bitingly close matches. Despite its popularity, to the untrained eye, tennis may seem somewhat confusing, and almost comical with the seemingly random words being shouted by the umpire. …
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Dampeners for me, have two important parts to play. Unlike a lot of other sports, tennis doesn’t leave a ton of room for personalization. Other than your clothing and your racket, there are very few ways to add a bit of individualism to your look. Adding a cool vibration dampener to your racket is a …
Kids are great. Until you need to buy clothes for them. Then kids are not that great. The problem with buying tennis shoes for the young adults in your family is that they’re very quickly going to grow out of them, leaving them without shoes again and you with egg on your face. There’s not …
Clay and tennis go hand-in-hand all the way back to the early 1900s. Back then, it was actually used as a protective coating for grass courts to avoid unwanted wilting in the simmering summer heat. From those humble beginnings, the crushed red brick has become an entity all of its own and now sits atop …
Selecting a pair of tennis shoes to be used on hard courts is something that you are very likely going to have to spend time on at some point. Even if your local club tennis courts are made out of clay or grass, there is a very high chance that you’ll play on the universally …
You’ve already missed your first serve so you NEED to make this. You toss up the ball for your second serve but you have to catch it again. Not quite right. You toss it up again. Still not quite right. Now you’re annoying your opponent. They’re standing waiting on the other side of the net …
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