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Tennis Racket

Tennis, Padel & Pickleball · Premium Carbon Fiber

Tennis Racket, flat front
Flat front
GradePer unit at 100
ColourBlack
QuantityUnder 50, a $270 development fee applies

Add 200 more to pay $59.00 / unit.

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Gabi designs your changes in the Studio, then you order the finished piece. ORDER below makes it as shown.

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Premium · Black × 100$67.85 / unit
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Total, before shipping$6,785
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What's included at $67.85

  • Tennis Racket, Premium grade (Premium Carbon Fiber)
  • Made to order in Black
  • Your size run, as set above
  • Replaced if anything arrives faulty

Shipping is priced at checkout from your address.

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Your logo on the chest, a woven label, a back print, a colour from your brand book: Gabi designs the changes with you in the Studio and prices the finished piece before you order it. Your logo file goes on as you supply it.

Replaced if faultyMade to order, so no change-of-mind returns. Anything that arrives damaged or defective, we make right.
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An oval head sits above a deep, V-shaped open throat that splits into two tapering arms before meeting the handle. The frame runs as one continuous aerodynamic beam of even depth around the hoop, with a regular-length shaft. A wrapped grip in off-white extends below the throat, contrasting the matte black frame.

Specs

GradePremium, Premium Carbon Fiber
Main Fabric100% Carbon Fiber, 300gsm
Strings100% Nylon
Grip Tape100% Polyurethane
SilhouetteOval head with open throat
LengthRegular
NecklineOpen throat design
Minimum order50 units

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Encyclopedia

In 1972, tennis balls turned yellow.

Not for players — for television. Wimbledon held out in white until 1986, the last major tournament to convert, because tradition mattered more there than visibility on a screen. Everywhere else, color followed the camera. It's a pattern that repeats through the sport's equipment history: rules bend to whatever technology makes the game more watchable, more playable, or more exportable — from a French monastery courtyard game to a global hard-court industry.

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The story of the Tennis Racket

In 1972, tennis balls turned yellow. Not for players — for television. Wimbledon held out in white until 1986, the last major tournament to convert, because tradition mattered more there than visibility on a screen. Everywhere else, color followed the camera. It's a pattern that repeats through the sport's equipment history: rules bend to whatever technology makes the game more watchable, more playable, or more exportable — from a French monastery courtyard game to a global hard-court industry.

1972Color changeOptic yellow balls introduced for television visibility
1986Wimbledon holdoutLast major tournament to adopt yellow balls
1976Oversized racketPrince racket nearly doubled standard hitting-area size

From the Cloister to the Court

Tennis descends from jeu de paume ("game of the palm"), played in French monastery courtyards from the 12th century, where players struck a ball with a bare or gloved hand across a rope. Rackets were added by the 16th century, and the game was popular enough among French nobility that Louis X reportedly died in 1316 after playing an intense match and drinking chilled wine — one of history's earliest recorded sports injuries.

Modern lawn tennis was codified far later and far more deliberately: Major Walter Clopton Wingfield patented a boxed set called "Sphairistike" in 1874, complete with net, rackets, balls, and an hourglass court marking guide, intended for lawn parties. The All England Croquet Club hosted the first Wimbledon Championship in 1877, borrowing Wingfield's rules almost wholesale and giving the modern sport its first permanent home and its enduring grass-court identity.

Racket materials moved from solid wood (standard through the 1960s) to laminated wood, then to steel (Wilson's T2000, 1967), and finally to composite fiberglass and graphite frames through the 1970s and 80s. The most consequential shift wasn't material but shape: Howard Head's Prince oversized racket (1976) nearly doubled the hitting area of a standard wood frame, and by the mid-1980s virtually no professional played wood.

Ball construction has stayed comparatively stable — a vulcanized rubber core covered in a wool-nylon felt — but felt formulation and pressurization are precisely regulated by the ITF, since the same rubber-and-felt principle must perform identically on clay, grass, and hard courts at sea level and altitude. Manufacturers produce distinct ball specifications for different surfaces and altitudes, a detail most recreational buyers never see on the can.

Questions

A pressurized 3-ball tube (China, large-volume run) lands around $2–4; the felt (wool-nylon blend) and precise rubber core vulcanization are the main cost drivers, and pressurized cans add packaging cost that pressureless balls (used for practice/ball machines) avoid.

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