Nadal was missed by the grass-roots programs of the big racket makers, yet wound up with Babolat.
That's why it seems odd that the mayor's hit list on racket-makers excludes what may be the most teeth-grindingly annoying of all: car alarms.
Her mother is an owner and the president of PowerAngle Rackets, a maker of diagonally strung tennis rackets; her first patented racket is in the collection at the Wimbledon Museum in London.
— Everywhere you look at CES, it seems there's nothing that can't be connected to the Internet: Tennis rackets, coffee makers, watches, jewelry, baby clothing, pet accessories, oven ranges and infinitely more appliances and household goods are all getting high-tech upgrades.
The site sells rackets from 11 makers, from Babolat to Yonex, and will customize rackets with hybrid strings (different gauge strings for the main and cross strings).
His bid in 1988 for a maker of Head tennis rackets, for instance, fell a third short of the winning offer from buyout firm Freeman Spogli.
In our article on makers of branded and generic drugs ("Protection racket", May 19th), we said that the American patent on one of Aventis's best-selling heart drugs expired in 1998; in fact it will expire in 2011.
The robot's makers say that when the ball falls within about 20cm of its racket, the ball is returned about 70% of the same time.
