| 摘要 |
Tennis and racquetball rackets having a conventional grip 11, shank 12, and head 13 supporting a string network including transverse strings 24 are given significantly longer longitudinal strings 25. This is made possible by extending long strings 25 from the distal boundary 17 of frame 15 across ball-hitting region 20, through shank region 12, to a proximal end support for the strung lengths of strings 25 located in grip 11. The long strings 25 are guided or fanned across ball-hitting region 20 and are preferably passed through a suspended shank guide holding them clear of the frame. They offer substantially longer strung lengths for tensioning and deformation to give shots higher velocity and increased accuracy without increasing the overall size of the frame or racket. The longer strings are also strung at higher tensions than the transverse strings so that both long and transverse strings vibrate at about the same frequency to cooperate with each other in simultaneously returning stored impact energy to a ball being hit. <IMAGE> |
