Another club in full swing this summer is the Racquet Lounge at Southampton, a five acre oasis with four padel courts, six pickleball courts, and seven tennis courts (six Har-Tru and one hard ...

His rout of a wooden racquet-wielding Ken Rosewall in the 1974 Wimbledon final helped popularise the steel racquet. Wooden racquets continued to be in use in the 70s in a market dominated by ...

By Jessica Carreras Motor City Tennis Classic Aug. 17-20 Bloomfield Tennis and Fitness Club Franklin Fitness and Racquet Club A banquet will be held for. By Jessica Carreras Motor City Tennis Classic ...

But by the year 1500, a hand-made wooden frame racquet strung with sheep gut came into use. That concept would remain the same to this day, although graphite would replace the wood.

Fred Corbit, a federal bankruptcy judge by profession, collects classic wooden tennis rackets from the 1960s and 1970s, shown Jan. 2 at his Spokane home. He collects mostly mint, ...