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Electronic stringing machines control the tension with a computer-directed electric motor, resulting in fast paced stringing and exceptional accuracy. This is the most common kind of stringing machine found in racquet sport shops. Reliable constant pull stringing machines usually cost $3,000 and more.
Polyester revolutionized professional tennis when a then little known Belgian string maker Luxilon supplied Gustavo Kuerten in 1997, who went on to win that year's French Open. [12] Since then, polyester's support for heavy topspin in particular has made it the most popular string material in the professional tennis tour.
Ektelon, Inc. was an American manufacturer of equipment for racquetball. Originally based in Bordentown, New Jersey, Ektelon was founded by Franklin W. "Bud" Held in 1964 as the first company to manufacture racquetball racquets and stringing machines, [1] not long after the development of the sport of racquetball by Joe Sobek.
Nicholas James Bollettieri (July 31, 1931 [1] – December 4, 2022) [2] was an American tennis coach. He pioneered the concept of a tennis boarding school, and helped develop many leading tennis players during the past decades, including Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Monica Seles, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, and Maria Sharapova.
Double-strung racquets had some limited precedent in the sport. In 1881, two inventors, George Hookham of Birmingham and Alexander Hodgkinson of Manchester, filed British patents “to increase the effective striking surface in tennis racquets” by having strings “instead of being sunk below the level of the frame as is usual…arranged flush with one edge thereof, or a double stringing, i ...
Fishbach, who grew up in Great Neck, New York, was a right-handed player, who famously used the controversial "spaghetti racquet" at the 1977 US Open. [1] The racquet, which was double-strung and greatly increased topspin, was first used professionally by Barry Phillips-Moore. [1]