One of the most common injuries in tennis is tennis elbow and it can be caused by a number of things: poor conditioning, bad technique, wrong equipment. Let’s start by looking at more arm-friendly racquets. Most tennis racquets that are released today are relatively stiff. The reason for this is to help out with power and stability on your shots. The downside is that more vibrations from the racquet will reach your arm. Back in the old days tennis was played with racquets made of wood. Wood is a flexible material that absorbs the shock from the ball, but doesn’t …
