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2. 10 and Under Tennis - Wikipedia

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   Size: 15% larger than standard yellow balls; Compression: 25% compression of yellow balls; Racket: Size: 23 inches or less; Red Court. Court: Singles Dimensions: 36 feet by 18 feet; Doubles Dimension: n/a; Net: Height: 2 feet 9 inches; Scoring: Best of 3 games. 7 points per game. First to 7 wins the game. 1 set to 6 games (lead by 2) with a 9 ...

3. touchtennis - Wikipedia

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   Touchtennis is a modified version of tennis played on a compact court with foam balls and shorter (21-inch or 53-centimetre) rackets. It is regularly featured on Sky Sports and is growing in popularity and acceptance as an alternative form of the full size game.

4. Platform tennis - Wikipedia

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   Cogswell found paddle tennis equipment in a sporting goods store and started using it on their court after lowering the net that they had used to play deck tennis. [4] As the balls they used tended to go out of play, fencing was added, rising from an initial height of 8 feet (2.4 m) up to 12 feet (3.7 m) as of 1932.

5. Racket (sports equipment) - Wikipedia

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   Shanking due to small racket head size is typically exacerbated by racket weight, which slows the reaction time, as well as, to a lesser degree, the racket's balance point. In professional tennis, currently-used racket head sizes vary between 95–115 square inches (610–740 cm 2 ), with most players adopting one from 98–108 square inches ...

6. Tennis technology - Wikipedia

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   Billie Jean King won the first Grand Slam title ever in 1967 using a racket made out of steel. It was the first time in history that a racket other than wood had been used to win a Grand Slam. Steel racket prototypes had been around since 1922 but were first patented in 1957. [1] In 1968, Spalding launched an aluminium racquet, called "The ...

7. Tennis - Wikipedia

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   The components of a tennis racket include a handle, known as the grip, connected to a neck which joins a roughly elliptical frame that holds a matrix of tightly pulled strings. For the first 100 years of the modern game, rackets were made of wood and of standard size, and strings were of animal gut. Laminated wood construction yielded more ...