You could still buy Slazenger tennis rackets, Tretorn balls, and Rossignol skis, Tyrolia bindings and Koflach boots.

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These days, along with Yamaha pianos and motorbikes, there are water scooters, tennis rackets, golf clubs, machine tools.

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Be our guest with an included VIP card, granting you access to mini golf, paddle boats, beach bikes, tennis rackets, volleyball courts and fishing poles.

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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.

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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.

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While its graphics are even less sophisticated than the Wii's, it's even smaller and cheaper than Nintendo's product and the controllers are closer replicas of their real-world counterparts, such as bowling balls, tennis rackets, and boxing gloves.

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It earned the label "poor man's tennis" because pieces of wood, or even even hard-cover books, were used as rackets.

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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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