Was demolishing those rackets a way of getting back at Tecnifibre for yanking its support?
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Matkot paddle manufacturers began churning out more powerful rackets made of carbon instead of wood.
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Now commanders in northern Iraq's largest city, Mosul, say they've uncovered a network of Mafia-style rackets.
Police say the extortion rackets are partly run by two crime dons living overseas.
In 2004, Federer was stringing his rackets at 55 pounds, which was considered ultra-loose for that time.
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You could still buy Slazenger tennis rackets, Tretorn balls, and Rossignol skis, Tyrolia bindings and Koflach boots.
"Instead of revolutionary, it's been more evolutionary, " said Cory Springer, the business director for rackets at Wilson.
Crime is on the rise too, and where there are black markets, mafia-type protection rackets probably follow.
To be fair, the Mafia would get the same treatment if they could legitimize their protection rackets.
If it's hot out and he's playing a monster hitter, he'll bring more rackets on the tighter side.
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These days, along with Yamaha pianos and motorbikes, there are water scooters, tennis rackets, golf clubs, machine tools.
Crime syndicates have seen a decline in some of their traditional sources of income, such as protection rackets.
Decades of insurgency have created splinter movements, violent mafia rackets and clan rivalries.
It earned the label "poor man's tennis" because pieces of wood, or even even hard-cover books, were used as rackets.
The Center for Security Policy has learned that other confidence rackets are about to exacerbate the social turmoil in Albania.
After a few more questions, Mr. Matthew unpacked his rackets and the kids lined up to play a point with him.
In northern Iraq, insurgents are using Mafia-style rackets and extortion of legitimate businesses to fund deadly attacks on American and Iraqi forces.
The mundaneness of most protection rackets is no reason to be sanguine.
He thought that because of the rise of postmodern irony the durable street rackets and shady back-room dealing had gone out of style.
"I have so many great memories from here, " said Clijsters, who will hang up her rackets for good at the end of the season.
Blitzstein pleaded guilty, went to prison for a few years, then returned to Vegas and picked up, business as usual, by operating low-level rackets.
"We started getting excited, volleying at the net, and then finally we put the rackets down and went to the side to talk, "Sorenson recalls.
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He matured into an athlete with movie-star looks, brandishing baseball bats and tennis rackets with the same intensity as his later heroes would wield swords.
The threats posed by cybergangs to corporate Web sites and databases, or the protection rackets formed in Russia and Brazil, indeed seem to be very serious.
You'd think tennis would be with it by now, chucking the tradition of crowd silence into the same ash bin as all-white playing duds and wooden rackets.
This year his students will work on silencing vibration in Wilson tennis rackets, extending the life of Easton baseball bats and streamlining the bobsleds of the U.S. Olympic team.
On Tuesday, Cypriot tennis star Marcos Baghdatis threw a spectacular on-court tantrum at the Australian open, deliberately smashing four rackets in a row during a break between sets.
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But French police are also examining whether the killings were linked to extortion rackets used to raise funds for the PKK from the large expatriate community in western Europe.
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