With 70 percent of today’s Top 20 ATP tour players stringing their racquets with its polyester-based string, Luxilon Industries is no longer best known for making fiber products such as medical ...

Wicked spin, radar control, tough as nails—the virtues of polyester string are well documented. With such qualities, it’s no wonder the popularity of polys has grown at every level of the game. One of ...

When watching the pros at the U.S. Open hit with superhuman pace, it's natural to look for a shortcut to attain that kind of power. Most weekend hackers might focus on the racket, assuming that if ...

Researchers found increasing string tension placed greater load on the elbow Tennis elbow could be avoided by reducing the tension on racquet strings, according to Dundee University researchers. The ...

A University of Colorado Boulder alum created what he says is the world’s first-ever 100% synthetic, biodegradable tennis string through his Boulder-based company Velociti. Ryan Burbary, who graduated ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Newcomb covers tennis gear/business, stadiums and sneaker tech. Sheep intestine launched the technological advancements of ...

Professional tennis players call it “the Luxilon shot,” and, apparently, you can hear it coming. The ball crosses the net hissing and spitting like some enraged tropical insect. Its most lethal ...

As the 2012 tennis season arrives in full flower this month with tournaments at Indian Wells and Miami, the game has settled into a new status quo that nobody could have predicted. All the recent ...