LONG BALL Step up to the baseline as you would to serve, but with a tennis ball in your racquet hand. Throw the ball over the net to the proper box. Good height over the net plus a long throw ...

Great servers have realized that power and pace are not the end-all and be-all, and that their killer shots must be backed up with a solid return game.

Tennis star Iga Swiatek has been booed by spectators after smashing a ball at a ball boy in an ugly act of sportsmanship.

[The Q] decided to solve this problem with a unique design: tires that use tennis balls as the cushioning medium instead. The build begins with small cut sections of plastic water pipe. These are ...

But, of course, serving the ball inbounds is just the first step ... per hour faster than the average female professional tennis player. Now, part of that speed is the result of pure strength.

For tennis ball machines to shoot balls with perfect accuracy and at nearly 100 miles per hour, it takes a series of carefully calibrated parts working together. Here's what it looks like inside.

What are tennis balls made of? Modern tennis balls are made of a hollow rubber core, covered in a wool or nylon shell which is known as the nap. Pressurised air inside the rubber core makes the ball ...