Laird Harrison

Tag: U.S. Open

  • How to Play Tennis Without Injury (We Think)

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    So you want to play tennis and not get injured doing it. Sounds simple enough, but research shows that for every thousand hours of the sport, up to 3 injuries occur. You’ll get to a thousand hours in less than four years if you play a few sets each week. Researchers are beginning to figure…

  • How Tennis Players Get Hurt

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    Heat. Fatigue. A strained thigh. Eugenie Bouchard had plenty of reasons to explain her defeat in the fourth-round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament yesterday. And anyone who plays tennis regularly can sympathize. Even though you don’t have the opportunity to crash into another player the way you do in a team sports, you can…