Modern tennis rackets, balls, and surfaces

S Miller - British journal of sports medicine, 2006 - bjsm.bmj.com
Modern rackets have facilitated a change in playing style from one of technique to one
characterised by power and spin. The combination of the increased stiffness of modern …

A review of tennis racket performance parameters

T Allen, S Choppin, D Knudson - Sports Engineering, 2016 - Springer
The application of advanced engineering to tennis racket design has influenced the nature
of the sport. As a result, the International Tennis Federation has established rules to limit …

Effects of racket moment of inertia on racket head speed, impact location and shuttlecock speed during the badminton smash

H Towler, SR Mitchell, MA King - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
How the racket properties impact performance of the badminton smash is relatively
unknown, and further insight could help players/coaches select the most appropriate racket …

Effects of tennis racket swingweight on forehand speed and accuracy in youth players

G Nicolau Llull, G Delgado García - International Journal of …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Few studies have analysed the effects of the racket inertial parameters on hitting
performance in young tennis players. The research aims to study the relationship between …

Effect of racket-shuttlecock impact location on shot outcome for badminton smashes by elite players

SA McErlain-Naylor, H Towler, IA Afzal… - Journal of sports …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A logarithmic curve fitting methodology for the calculation of badminton racket-
shuttlecock impact locations from three-dimensional motion capture data was presented and …

Effects of swing-weight on swing speed and racket power

R Cross, R Bower - Journal of sports sciences, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Measurements are presented of the speed at which six different rods could be swung by four
male students. Three of the rods had the same mass but their swing-weight (ie moment of …

Materials have driven the historical development of the tennis racket

L Taraborrelli, R Grant, M Sullivan, S Choppin, J Spurr… - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
The tennis racket has developed since the origins of Lawn Tennis in the 1870s. This study
investigated how the tennis racket developed from 1874 to 2017, using measurements and …

The effect of racquet swing weight on serve kinematics in elite adolescent female tennis players

D Whiteside, B Elliott, B Lay, M Reid - Journal of Science and Medicine in …, 2014 - Elsevier
Objectives Collision models for hitting implements denote how ball speed and swing weight
increase proportionally when swing speed and impact location are held constant. The …

Identifying the inertial properties of a padel racket: an experimental maneuverability proposal

C Blanes, A Correcher, P Beltrán, M Mellado - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Although the moment of inertia of padel rackets is one of their fundamental properties and of
particular interest to the players, hardly any manufacturer specifies the parameter for its …

[HTML][HTML] Joint kinetics to assess the influence of the racket on a tennis player's shoulder

T Creveaux, R Dumas, C Hautier, P Macé… - Journal of sports …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This study aimed at investigating the influence of three rackets on shoulder net joint
moments, power and muscle activity during the flat tennis serve under field-conditions. A 6 …