The Babolat Racquet and advances in tennis technology

I played tennis growing up. My first racquet was a wooden Wilson. I'm not even sure the brand exists anymore, and I know with dead certainty that the style of racquet no longer exists. Perhaps there's some nostalgia makers of wooden racquets, but if there are, I'm unaware of them.

In the intervening twenty-five years, technology in tennis has jumped forward more quickly than in perhaps any other sport. It as well be a different game, and the advance poly-carbon compounds used in modern racquets is the cause.

The Babolate racquet is a good example. The size of the head, the modern poly-fiber strings and the poly-carbon compounds used to make the frame provide the user with more power, precisioin and control than was thought possible until only recently. As a result, tennis has turned into a game of robotic baseliners who scorch the ball at previously unfathomable speeds, never approach the net, and win with power and pace.

As a tennis fan, this makes me sad. It's not the fault of the Babolat racquet, surely - you can't blame the company for creating a superior product, and the same goes with their competitors. But you can blame tennis's governing bodies for allowing the game to become such a parody of what it once was.

Gone is the aggressive, serve-and-volley game of the likes of McEnroe, Becker, Edberg and even Sampras. Gone too is the all-around game of Bjorg or Wilander. Instead we've now got clones - a million tennis players all over the world learning to hit the ball methodically, predictably, just like Roger Federer.

Again, this isn't a slight against Federer. He's the best at what he does, and deservedly ranks among the world's elite. But when everyone plays the same style game, and wins (or loses) the same way every time, it's distressing to the common fan. One of the great things about tennis "back in the day" was the contrast in styles between players. What would happen when a serve-and-volly Sampras was matched up with a baseliner like Agassi? The answer, of course, was some of the best matches in the history of the sport. Contrasting styles made for great theatre.

With the advent of the Babolat racquet and the like, there's no longer such a thing as contrasting styles in tennis. And that's because it no longer makes any sense to charge the net unless forced. Because the technology is so great, increasing the power and precision of baseline play, serve-and-volley is nothing more than an antique way of looking at the game, and a surefire first round exit from any tournament, whether it be on grass, hardcourt or clay.

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