History of Tennis Rackets

A short history of  tennis rackets, and how the evolution of the tennis racket has revolutionised the modern game of tennis.
Throughout the history of tennis, rackets were made of laminated wood, with heads of around 65 in sq. In the late 1960s, Wilson produced the T2000 steel tennis rackets which featured a wire wound around the frame to make string loops. Back in the 60’s the steel tennis racket’s rise to popularity was fronted by Jimmy Connors.
The next jump in tennis racket technologies came in 1975, and was the introduction of aluminium, this material was lighter than steel and allowed the construction of oversized tennis rackets. Now players could hit with more spin or slice on the ball thanks to their 100+ in sq head sizes.

The 1980’s saw the introduction of the first graphite tennis rackets, graphite proved to be lighter and stiffer and allowed players to hit through the ball harder. Today’s tennis rackets are also made from graphite although a different grade of graphite that was used in the 80’s. Graphites are often mixed with other materials such as tungsten and titanium.

 

This video is about the evolution of the first tennis rackets

First racket...

Today I will be talking about the first tennis rackets and of what materials where they made:

WOODEN RACKETS:

The tennis was dominated by wooden rackets produced by Dunlop, Slazenger, Wilson, Spalding and Babolat.
The 2 classic wooden rackets of all the time were the Dunlop Maxply Fort and Wilson Jack Krammer.
The rackets were generally heavy with extremly small square strings. The rackets were generally quite flexible. 
This made it a very high level playing field for everyone.
The strings were generally natural good(expensive and not very durable)

HOW WERE THE WOODEN RACKETS MADE:

Tennis rackets were made with strings made of good bound inside a wooden frame. Then by the year 1500, raquets began to be more use and a lot of people start buying them. The early rackets had a long handle with a small frying shape head. The rackets as well were more squash than know a days

This blog is going to consist on the evolution of tennis rackets. I will be putting images every week and i will be talking about them