When the ITF tightened the surface rules, we had to recut everything
The roughness and thickness limits moved, and suddenly half our molds were borderline. Here is what that month actually looked like on the floor.
We keep a bucket of saltwater by the press, and there's a reason
Beach tennis happens on sand next to the sea. So we stopped testing paddles in clean lab conditions and started soaking them.
A long email thread with a German buyer about REACH, and what it taught me
He didn't care about the price first. He asked about substances. Lily took it from there, and it changed how we document everything.
We built six prototypes for a tour player, and she picked the rejected one
Five carefully engineered paddles and one we almost threw out. Guess which one she took to the court.
