I've signed up for a tennis comp, starting tonight, and I haven't played the game for 4 or 5 years. I haven't own a tennis bat since I was 14.

Anyone know anything about these things? Should I saunter off to Cash Converters and see what they have on the shelf, or try a Rebel Sports Wilson special for the $60 price range and see what I can pick up. I figure a Cash Converters pickup could be good, but might need a re-string that would be 75% of the cost of a newie. Do Wilson make Whale tennis gear?

Of course, the missus says we have a perfectly good racquet in the garage... from her uni days. I told her they stopped making them from wood in the early 1980's.