Tennis

From a time when the elite wanted to “leave the nets to the fishermen,” how did tennis become a racket sport? Why were people looking to develop alternatives to wood rackets in the 1920’s? Why did it take fifty years for new materials to impact the sport? How did the tennis governing body define the sport? How did it deal with new innovations and new technologies that seemed to change the game? Why was the large-head prince racket that revolutionized tennis not banned by the conservative ITF? How did a new stringing system create such an upset within the tennis establishment?