Twist the serving shoulder a little so the racquet arm and tossing arms align. 3. Do the ball toss by releasing the ball slightly in front of the shoulder while the racquet is facing downwards and is terminally retracted. Bend your racquet arm elbow to elevate the racquet while the left arm remains pointing at the ball. This results to the deterioration of the tendon that cause the small tears. Most sufferers of tennis elbow are between 35-65 years old. Both men and women have the same chance of being afflicted with it. Tennis elbow inflicts 75% of patients dominant arm. Any person is capable of being affected, but tennis elbow is in general noticed in two sets of patients, namely: Blue-Collar Workers People who use their hands in working, manual laborers, they are in danger of being affected tennis elbow. Safe Racquet Storage It is necessary that you do not leave your tennis racquets in the car. If your racquet has synthetic strings, then it begins to lose its tension at about 43 degrees C or 110 degrees F. Always leave your racquet at a cool storing place in order for the strings to stay intact. 5. Racquet Stringing Frequency Tennis players wonder how often they must have their racquets re-strung. ITN 1 corresponds to high-level player (holding an ATP / WTA standing or of a comparable playing standard). The ITN 10 is a player who is capable of serving and returning an ordinary ITF ball in a full court. ITF uses the Description of Standards and On Court Assessment to rate the players if there are no available results from competition. She began playing tennis when she was only 4 years old. At 6, her talent in tennis was discovered and moved to the US to hone her skills under professional coaching. When she started playing professionally in 2002, she only ranked at 186th. But on the following year, her ranking greatly improved being at 32nd. Here is a list of today's leading makers of tennis racquets: Wilson - one of their most popular models is the one used by Venus Williams (model W5 Divine Iris) Volkl - their racquets are all about control and precision. Their most popular professional tennis racquet model being the Volkl DNX 10. Yonex - has models that are being used by Lleyton Hewitt and David Nalbandian.