When Pete Sampras and Lindsay Davenport step up to serve, they, and all the other professionals, will want the confidence that the rackets and strings they use have been designed and tested to ...

A "study and review" of materials used in table tennis rackets is due to take place and could lead to the abolition of a rule specifying that 85 per cent of the bat must be made from wood.

The new racket is made with a material called Hyper Carbon, manufactured by Toray Industries. It is an ultrahigh-modulus carbon fiber–4 times stiffer, 65 percent lighter and 4 times stronger ...

Early tennis rackets borrowed their design from the older sport of real tennis, an early racket sport dating back to around the 16th century and played by the rich and elite. They were made of ...

Materials aren’t the only major driver of racket change. Size matters. From the small-headed wood rackets to that 67-square-inch T2000, rackets have evolved quite a bit.