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Durbin's goal was the relocation of the sweetspot, the area on the racket head that gives the player maximum hitting control. "Players using conventional rackets often miss the sweetspot located near the base of the racket, causing tennis elbow," he explained...
Durbin moved the sweetspot to the center of the racket head by removing excess weight, lengthening the vertical strings and adding two extra pounds of tension to them...
...Durbin reduces the chances of tennis elbow by reducing the vibrations traveling up the arm as the racket meets the ball," he said, adding that the racket is more efficient than conventional rackets and improves control because players can find the sweetspot more easily. Durbin hopes to prevent mis-hits, a major cause and aggravator of his own ailment, tennis elbow...
Princeton President William Bowan became the first college administrator to make the transition to the Durbin, while Harvard's President Bok has not acknowledged the Princeton professor's achievement. Bok succumbed to advanced tennis technology when he switched to the Prince Graphic, the first of the large-headed, large-sweetspot rackets, which has already been adopted by many top pros and whose retail cost is only slightly less prohibitive than the Durbin...
...spot 3½times that of normal racquets. Says Slote: "I hit more shots solidly. I'm very satisfied with it. Besides, the big thing is confidence. You do better with a racquet you have confidence in." Last week, after trying a friend's new Pancho Segura "SweetSpot"−notable for its wider spacing between strings near the rim than at the center. Manhattan Housewife Flip Breckenfeld offered to buy it on the spot. Said she: "I've never hit the ball so well...