Having played tennis since 1985, I have gone through a few phases of racquet use.  I loathe changing equipment when it comes to my racquets so my list of phases is not as long as one might expect.  I will go through them in chronological order.  Click on any of the links to see some of the dinosaurs I played with over the years.

My earliest uses of tennis racquets were akin to goofing around with badminton

Phase 1 – The Early Days – What is in the Coat Closet?

I was born in the mid 1970s, and tennis had a boom from that time through the early 1980s.  While my father is still an avid player, at some point during the tennis boom my mother also liked to play tennis from time to time.  This meant we had a lot of old wooden racquets in a closet near our…