Varsity Girls Tennis Unfortu“net”ly Falls 8-1 to Campo

Tennis court nets are 42” high at the posts and 36” high in the center.  They can be made from polyethylene, polyester, nylon, or steel mesh.  Although net posts are typically outside the alley in the “doubles” position, professional courts can also be set up with the posts in the “singles” position inside the alley.  Now for some fun facts…

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Varsity Girls Tennis Knocks off College Park 6-3

As I sat down to write this article, I was thinking that I was running out of content having talked about the history of tennis, scoring, the US Open, rackets, balls, and so forth.  Although I came up with a few other ideas that could show up in future articles, I thought I would dedicate this one to female athletes for…

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Varsity Girls Tennis makes a “racket” with their play but falls to Las Lomas 7-2

Throughout most of tennis history, rackets were made of wood.  Heads were around 65 square inches, and some rackets came with fashionable trapezoid-shaped “cases”.  Although graphite composites rackets came out in the early 1980s, Swedish tennis legend Björn Borg tried to stage a comeback in 1985 in Monte Carlo with his standard small-headed wood racket because “he hadn’t tried the…

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