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I have some really old threads I started about this I'd rather not unearth due to other content. Plus it's time for a fresh discussion after Novak's latest failure which like Federer he had two bites at the apple. The Curse 1926-Bill Tilden fails to defend his USO title for a 7th consecutive...

Got curious from where the Prestige Pro, now called Tour, traces its lineage? This is the 95sq-in, 16x19, 22mm beam, higher stiffness racquet I am thinking of trying this racquet as I am about to demo the Prince Tour 95 and it just got me wondering about the Head's lineage. The Prestige MP now...

Has any tennis historian put together some sort racquet family tree that tracks the evolution of racquet lines through the years? If not, I think it would be a fun little project. Comment any evolution line you know, and I will try to compile the information. Some obvious recent examples I...

@-NN- posted a thread 'How Jimmy Connors got solved' which prompted me to find more out about Arthur Ashe. I had a spurious knowledge, and a personal connection - my grandparents were in the Royal Box for the 1975 Wimbledon Final. But really knew little about the man, aside from my grandparents...