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Squash racket and ball Racquetball racket and ball. A racket or racquet [1] is an item of sporting equipment used to strike a ball or shuttlecock in a variety of sports. A racket consists of three major components: a widened distal end known as the head, an elongated handle known as the grip, and a reinforced connection between the head and handle known as the throat or heart.
Racket (or racquet): Bat with a long handle and a large looped frame with a string mesh tautly stretched across it, the frame made of wood, metal, graphite, composite, or some other synthetic material, used by a tennis player to hit the tennis ball during a game of tennis. [109] [110] Racket abuse (racquet abuse): When a player slams their ...
Racket sports (or racquet sports) are games in which players use a racket or paddle to hit a ball or other object. [1] Rackets consist of a handled frame with an open hoop that supports a network of tightly stretched strings.
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Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a tennis racket strung with a cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the ...
There needs to be some agreement for standarisation of the spelling of racket (or racquet) At the moment, all of the pages describing sports played with rackets (e.g. tennis) read like an absolute shambles.
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a tennis racket strung with a cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the ...
Racket may refer to: Racket (crime), a systematised element of organized crime Protection racket, a scheme whereby a group provides protection to businesses or other groups through violence outside the sanction of the law; Racket (sports equipment), a piece of equipment used to play tennis, badminton, squash, racquetball and other racket sports