Technical Tennis

Racquets, Strings, Balls, Courts, Spin, and Bounce
What are the single most important variables in racquet performance? How can a player create maximum spin? This guide to selecting racquets and strings answers these and other elusive equipment and performance-related questions that plague hackers and experts alike. It includes explanations of the possible expectations of equipment choices.
What are the single most important variables in racquet performance? What racquet and string features combine to provide the most control, comfort, and feel? How can a player create maximum spin? This informative primer answers these and other elusive equipment and performance-related questions that perennially plague hackers and experts alike. A simplified, layperson's companion to the authors' previous work, The Physics and Technology of Tennis, this conveniently sized guide to selecting racquets and strings includes bite-sized explanations of the possible expectations of equipment choices.