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2. Racket (sports equipment) - Wikipedia

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   Racquetball racket and ball. A racket or racquet[ 1] is an item of sporting equipment used to strike a ball or shuttlecock back-and-forth in games such as tennis, badminton, squash, racquetball and padel. The typical basic structure of a racket consists of a widened distal end known as the head (which presents a flattened firm surface designed ...

3. Strings (tennis) - Wikipedia

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   A strung tennis racquet. Virtually all modern racquets are strung in a criss-cross horizontal-vertical pattern. Various other patterns have been used in history with varying success. Double strung tennis racquets were introduced in 1977 [19] but the "spaghetti racquets" were later banned [20] because they permitted excessive spin and were too ...

4. Rackets (sport) - Wikipedia

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   Rackets (sport) R. P. Keigwin (right) with AEJ Collins the college's rackets team at Clifton College c. 1902. Rackets or racquets is an indoor racket sport played in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. It is infrequently called "hard rackets" to distinguish it from the related sport of squash (also called "squash rackets").

5. List of racket sports - Wikipedia

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   Sports that use a netted racket. Badminton. Ball badminton. Battledore and shuttlecock. Crossminton (previously "Speedminton") Frontenis. Qianball. Racketlon (a series of other racket and paddle sports) Rackets.

6. Tennis - Wikipedia

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   Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles ). Each player uses a tennis racket strung with a cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to manoeuvre the ...

7. Tennis technology - Wikipedia

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   Billie Jean King won the first Grand Slam title ever in 1967 using a racket made out of steel. It was the first time in history that a racket other than wood had been used to win a Grand Slam. Steel racket prototypes had been around since 1922 but were first patented in 1957. In 1968, Spalding launched an aluminium racquet, called "The Smasher ...