As I opened up the local section, I saw an image of a tennis racket strung in a strange fashion. This intrigued me, so I decided to read the article. I soon discovered that several years earlier a local woman named Madeline Hauptman had co-patented a diagonally strung tennis racket featuring opposite pairs of equidistant strings strung in a diagonal fashion. She claimed that as a result of this congruency of string length, vibrations are more evenly dispersed following a tennis shot, reducing the level of vibration directed onto a given player’s forearm and possibly preventing tennis elbow. The article I was reading was a profile of PowerAngle, Mrs. Hauptman’s small diagonally strung racket company. I immediately rushed to my computer to find out some more information on PowerAngle. To my excitement, I found out that Mrs. Hauptman’s diagonally strung tennis rackets had never been scientifically tested or compared to conventional rackets.

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