Racket Games: Racket Tips, Techniques and Facts

You'll discover expert techniques and insider tips to elevate your game across tennis, squash, badminton and lacrosse, from mastering essential shots and court tactics to choosing the perfect equipment. Our trusted advice covers everything you need to improve your skills, whether you're just getting started or looking to refine advanced techniques. Racket Games is here to help.

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Squash: Getting to Grips with your Racket

How you treat your racket is going to impact in a major way in how you perform on the court. Use it like an axe, gripping it firmly and making fierce downwar...

Balance, Posture and Footwork

Great racket technique is not going to win you games if your court coverage is poor. Every shot requires quick thinking, sometimes anticipation, in order to...

Benefits of Joining a Club

Given that you need at least one other player in order to play, racket sports do not represent the same lonely path to greater fitness and health as, for exa...

How Long is it Since you Picked up a Racket?

There is no more unpleasant sight than watching a middle-aged paunch hanging over the top of a pair of 1970s high-riding tennis shorts. This vintage piece of...

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Squash Club Was Good for My Business: A Case Study

There is a saying in business that it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. John Holmes found there was a certain truth to that when he joined his loca...

How My Fitness Affected My Tennis: A Case Study

Plenty of tennis players take lessons to improve their technique and are rewarded by better results on the court. Not as many club players are willing to wor...

Are Tennis Holidays Worth It?

There is no better way for a tennis fanatic to indulge his passion than to immerse himself in it completely. Get away from life’s mundane chores, forget ab...

How Tennis Lessons Improved My Technique: A Case Study

Every summer, typically around the time of the Wimbledon Championships, public tennis courts the length and breadth of the UK are packed with amateur players...

A Fitness Coach's Guide to Racket Sports: FAQ

A good level of fitness is essential for those determined to play squash, tennis or badminton to a high standard. Lessons can help players improve their skil...

Executing the Smash

There is nothing more emphatic than a smash for imposing your will on a rally. Get your technique right and there won’t be any coming back for your opponen...

Joining a Lacrosse Group

It’s a real shame that lacrosse doesn’t feature on the events itinerary in Beijing this summer. After all, it is through exposure on television that so m...

The Rules of Lacrosse

It should come as no surprise that when lacrosse has featured as a full Olympic event – at the games of 1904 and 1908 – the Canadian team has walked away...

Squash: Tackling Unforced Errors

How many games are going to pass you by before you tackle the problem of handing your opponent easy points? It happens in all racket sports, whether it be a...

Squash: Crosscourt Drive

Shot selection is key to dominating a game and achieving the conclusion to a rally in your favour. Knowing both how and when to use individual weapons in you...

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