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Trevor Meier
29 January 2010
Tennis Gear
As a tennis racquet stringer, I get asked all the time what is the difference between Natural Gut tennis strings, and Synthetic Gut tennis strings.Natural Gut strings is generally made from a cows gut...
Rob Leahy
12 November 2017
Tennis Gear
Just so we're clear, if you have tennis elbow, changing your strings won't get rid of it. It will help to reduce the vibration that you experience which can in turn reduce the pain. At this point if y...
Trevor Meier
15 September 2017
Tennis Gear
Have you ever gotten to the court, only to find the perfectly good looking tennis balls you were going to use, have completely lost their bounce? Many players use a new can of balls each time the...
pat markey
17 September 2010
Tennis Tips & Drills
This is an entry from my regular blog about racket stringing and I posted it here:  After reading this article you will have 3 winning hybrid combinations to improve your game. Some time back I publis...
Rob Leahy
23 October 2017
Tennis Gear
The arrival of polyester strings has been one of the major developments in tennis in recent years. It took a while for all professionals to change over from natural gut, but now nearly every professio...

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Tennis Tips & Drills
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Tennis Gear
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