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Winter Warm Up: Dusting Off Your Tennis

For most of the US the whether is just starting to warm up, and I'm sure all of you are just as excited as I am to get out in the sunshine and play some tennis again! Few things are more satisfying to me than getting outside to participate in some kind of physical activity,

Is winning the “only thing”?

I'm sure you've heard the phrase "winning isn't everything, it's the ONLY thing". I must admit that in the past I pretty much subscribed to that sentiment, being a naturally fierce competitor and having taken my tennis career very seriously. After all winning is the point of competition right? Why would you go out to

Prince EX03 Rebel 95 & Rebel Team

Welcome to a new age of Prince Racquet Sports! The new line of EX03 racquets represents a return to the advance player focus that once made Prince the market powerhouse and equal of Wilson. This new series is constructed and designed with the tournament to tour level player in mind and is nothing short a

Wilson K Pro Staff 88

Wilson K Pro Staff 88:It's Baaack!! Yes the return of king. If you were one of the few people on the planet who was able to handle the original Pro Staff 6.0 85 and still have the strength to wield on you will love this racquet. Mere mortals will probably want to just pass this

Update: New Babolat Y Racquets

Today was the first day of the semi annual Mid Atlantic Tennis Buying Show here in the Washington DC area. While I have seen, and in most cases played with the new racquets for 2009, one new line has spiked a lot of interest in the last few days. Today would be my first chance

Babolat Introduces New “Y” Racquets

As I wrote about a few days ago, today was the big online launch of Babolat's new racquets for 2009.I had thought that this would be the time that they introduced the new Pure Drive and GT+ line, but alas I was wrong...One of the major criticisms of Babolat as a company is that they

Robredo Bounces Bellucci

Brasil Open Feb. 15 Champion: Tommy Robredo Finalist: Thomaz Bellucci Robredo d. Bellucci 6-3 3-6 6-4Tommy Robredo claims his 8th career singles ATP title with a hard faught victory. Bellucci is a Brazilian so to say Robredo was the underdog could be a bit of an understatement. Thomaz claims to have recovered from his very

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