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Racket (sports equipment)

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A racket or racquet is a sports implement consisting of a handled frame with an open hoop across which a network of strings or catgut is stretched tightly. [1]

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Aaron Krickstein

Aaron Krickstein (born August 2, 1967), nicknamed "Marathon Man", is an American former professional tennis player, who competed on the ATP Tour from 1983 to 1996.

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Andre Agassi

Andre Kirk Agassi (born April 29, 1970) is an American retired professional tennis player and former world No. 1 who was one of the sport's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s.

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Andrea Jaeger

Andrea Jaeger (born June 4, 1965) is a former World No.

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Andy Roddick

Andrew Stephen Roddick (born August 30, 1982) is an American former professional tennis player.

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Arthur Ashe

Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. (July 10, 1943 – February 6, 1993) was an American professional tennis player who won three Grand Slam titles.

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Babolat

Babolat is a French tennis, badminton, and squash equipment company, headquartered in Lyon, best known for its strings and tennis racquets which are used by several top players.

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Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.

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Ball

A ball is a round object (usually spherical but sometimes ovoid) with various uses.

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Bentley Fortissimo

The Bentley Fortissimo tennis racquet of 1972 was the first oversize tennis racquet to be produced and demonstrated publicly.

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Billie Jean King

Billie Jean King (née Moffitt; born November 22, 1943) is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player.

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Björn Borg

Björn Rune Borg (born 6 June 1956) is a Swedish former world No. 1 tennis player widely considered to be one of the greatest in the history of the sport.

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Bob Bryan

Robert Charles Bryan (born April 29, 1978) is an American professional tennis player.

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Boron

Boron is a chemical element with symbol B and atomic number 5.

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Bosworth Tennis

Bosworth Tennis, also known as Bosworth International, is a family business which specializes in stringing tennis rackets but also designs and alters other aspects of tennis rackets to match the personal preferences of the players.

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Carbon fiber reinforced polymer

Carbon fiber reinforced polymer, carbon fiber reinforced plastic or carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic (CFRP, CRP, CFRTP or often simply carbon fiber, carbon composite or even carbon), is an extremely strong and light fiber-reinforced plastic which contains carbon fibers.

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Catgut

Catgut is a type of cord that is prepared from the natural fibre found in the walls of animal intestines.

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Ceramic

A ceramic is a non-metallic solid material comprising an inorganic compound of metal, non-metal or metalloid atoms primarily held in ionic and covalent bonds.

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Chris Evert

Christine Marie Evert (born December 21, 1954), known as Chris Evert Lloyd from 1979 to 1987, is a former World No. 1 tennis player from the United States.

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Composite material

A composite material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite, which is the common name) is a material made from two or more constituent materials with significantly different physical or chemical properties that, when combined, produce a material with characteristics different from the individual components.

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Dunlop Sport

Dunlop Sport is a British sporting goods company that specialises in tennis and golf equipment.

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Engineered wood

Engineered wood, also called composite wood, man-made wood, or manufactured board, includes a range of derivative wood products which are manufactured by binding or fixing the strands, particles, fibres, or veneers or boards of wood, together with adhesives, or other methods of fixation to form composite materials.

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Fiberglass

Fiberglass (US) or fibreglass (UK) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber.

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Flemish

Flemish (Vlaams), also called Flemish Dutch (Vlaams-Nederlands), Belgian Dutch (Belgisch-Nederlands), or Southern Dutch (Zuid-Nederlands), is any of the varieties of the Dutch language dialects spoken in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium, as well as French Flanders and the Dutch Zeelandic Flanders by approximately 6.5 million people.

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Fraxinus

Fraxinus, English name ash, is a genus of flowering plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae.

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Gabriela Sabatini

Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini (born 16 May 1970) is an Argentine former professional tennis player.

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Graphite

Graphite, archaically referred to as plumbago, is a crystalline allotrope of carbon, a semimetal, a native element mineral, and a form of coal.

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Grigor Dimitrov

Grigor Dimitrov (Григор Димитров,; born 16 May 1991) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player.

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Head (company)

Head N.V. is a Dutch sports and clothing company, which sells alpine skiing and tennis equipment.

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Howard Head

Howard Head (July 31, 1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – March 3, 1991) was an aeronautical engineer who is credited with the invention of the first commercially successful aluminum laminate skis and the oversized tennis racket.

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International Table Tennis Federation

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) is the governing body for all national table tennis associations.

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Jack Kramer

John Albert "Jack" Kramer (August 1, 1921 – September 12, 2009) was an American tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s.

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Jennifer Capriati

Jennifer Maria Capriati (born March 29, 1976) is an American former professional tennis player.

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Jimmy Connors

James Scott Connors (born September 2, 1952) is a retired American world No. 1 tennis player, often considered among the greatest in the history of the sport.

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John Isner

John Robert Isner (born April 26, 1985) is an American professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No.

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John McEnroe

John Patrick McEnroe Jr. (born February 16, 1959 in Wiesbaden, West Germany) is a retired American tennis player, often considered among the greatest in the history of the sport.

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Kathleen Horvath

Erica Kathleen "Kathy" Horvath (born August 25, 1965) is a retired American professional tennis player.

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Kevlar

Kevlar is a heat-resistant and strong synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora.

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Kinetic energy

In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the energy that it possesses due to its motion.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Leander Paes

Leander Adrian Paes (born 17 June 1973) is an Indian professional tennis player who is considered to be one of the best doubles and mixed doubles players of all time, having achieved a career Grand Slam in each discipline.

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List of racket sports

Racket sports are games in which players use rackets to hit a ball or other object.

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Malcolm Whitman

Malcolm "Mal" Douglass Whitman (March 15, 1877 – December 28, 1932) was an American tennis player who won three singles titles at the U.S. National Championships.

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Marion Bartoli

Marion Bartoli (born 2 October 1984) is a French former professional tennis player.

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Mark Woodforde

Mark Raymond Woodforde, OAM (born 23 September 1965) is a former professional tennis player from Australia.

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Martina Navratilova

Martina Navratilova (Martina Navrátilová; born Martina Šubertová; October 18, 1956) is a former Czechoslovak and later American professional tennis player and coach.

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Middle French

Middle French (le moyen français) is a historical division of the French language that covers the period from the 14th to the early 17th centuries.

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Mirjana Lučić-Baroni

Mirjana Lučić-Baroni (née Lučić;; born 9 March 1982) is a Croatian professional tennis player.

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Misnomer

A misnomer is a name or term that suggests an idea that is known to be wrong.

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Momentum

In Newtonian mechanics, linear momentum, translational momentum, or simply momentum (pl. momenta) is the product of the mass and velocity of an object.

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Monica Seles

Monica Seles (Szeles Mónika,; Monika Seleš, Моника Селеш; born December 2, 1973) is a retired Yugoslav-born American professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

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Nylon

Nylon is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers, based on aliphatic or semi-aromatic polyamides.

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Pam Shriver

Pamela Howard Shriver (born July 4, 1962) is an American former professional tennis player known primarily as a doubles specialist with success also as a singles player.

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Per capita

Per capita is a Latin prepositional phrase: per (preposition, taking the accusative case, meaning "by means of") and capita (accusative plural of the noun caput, "head").

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Pete Sampras

Pete Sampras (born August 12, 1971) is an American retired tennis player widely regarded as one of the greatest in the history of the sport.

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Polyamide

A polyamide is a macromolecule with repeating units linked by amide bonds.

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Polyester

Polyester is a category of polymers that contain the ester functional group in their main chain.

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Prince original graphite

The Prince original graphite, or the “POG” as it is called, or “The Original G” is a tennis racquet manufactured by Prince Sports.

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Prince Sports

Prince Global Sports, LLC, based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a manufacturer and distributor of racket sports equipment, footwear and apparel for tennis, squash and badminton.

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Prior art

Prior art (state of the art or background art), in most systems of patent law, is constituted by all information that has been made available to the public in any form before a given date that might be relevant to a patent's claims of originality.

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Rackets (sport)

Rackets or racquets is an indoor racket sport played in the United Kingdom, Ireland, United States, and Canada.

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Racquetball

Racquetball is a racquet sport played with a hollow rubber ball in an indoor or outdoor court.

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Real tennis

Real tennis – one of several games sometimes called "the sport of kings" – is the original racquet sport from which the modern game of tennis (originally called "lawn tennis") is derived.

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René Lacoste

Jean René Lacoste (2 July 1904 – 12 October 1996) was a French tennis player and businessman.

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Rod Laver

Rodney George Laver (born 9 August 1938) is an Australian former tennis player widely regarded as one of the greatest in the history of the sport.

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Shuttlecock

A shuttlecock (also called a bird or birdie) is a high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton.

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Snauwaert

Snauwaert is Belgian tennis racquet brand and manufacturer of other tennis equipment.

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Snowshoe

A snowshoe is footwear for walking over snow.

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Squash (sport)

Squash is a ball sport played by two (singles) or four players (doubles squash) in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball.

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Star of David

The Star of David (✡), known in Hebrew as the Shield of David or Magen David (Hebrew rtl; Biblical Hebrew Māḡēn Dāwīḏ, Tiberian, Modern Hebrew, Ashkenazi Hebrew and Yiddish Mogein Dovid or Mogen Dovid), is a generally recognized symbol of modern Jewish identity and Judaism.

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Steffi Graf

Stefanie Maria "Steffi" Graf (born 14 June 1969) is a German former professional tennis player.

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Sweet spot (sports)

The sweet spot is a place where a combination of factors results in a maximum response for a given amount of effort.

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Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth across a table using small bats.

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Table tennis racket

A basic table tennis racket (also known as a "paddle" or "bat") is used by table tennis players.

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Tad Weed

Thurlow "Tad" Weed (January 18, 1933November 7, 2006) was the placekicker for the Ohio State Buckeyes, a college level American football team that won the national championship in 1954.

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Tecnifibre

Tecnifibre is a French manufacturer of sporting equipment, specializing in tennis and squash.

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

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Tennis elbow

Tennis elbow, also known as lateral epicondylitis, is a condition in which the outer part of the elbow becomes painful and tender.

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Titanium

Titanium is a chemical element with symbol Ti and atomic number 22.

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Tommy Haas

Thomas Mario Haas (born 3 April 1978) is a German former professional tennis player.

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Völkl

Völkl is a sports equipment manufacturer based in Germany.

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Venus Williams

Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980) is an American professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No.

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Wilson Sporting Goods

The Wilson Sporting Goods Company is an American sports equipment manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Xare

Xare is racquet sport, a form of Basque pelota.

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Yonex

() is a Japanese manufacturer of sporting equipment for badminton, golf, and tennis, producing rackets, clubs, shoes, shuttlecocks, tennis balls, and other equipment for those sports.

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Zina Garrison

Zina Lynna Garrison (born November 16, 1963) is a former professional tennis player from the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(sports_equipment)

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