1.   When Bjorn Borg recently made his unsuccessful comeback, he attempted it with his faithful old wooden racket as he had found the new weaponry too difficult to control.

2.   BADMINTON in the Olympics is very different from the game you might play in your yard using a plastic birdie and thin wooden rackets.

3.   Class warfare has swirled around the Open championship since the days of wooden rackets.

4.   He added that changing back to wooden rackets was ruled out.

5.   It was one thing to design a ball to withstand the serve and volley of wooden rackets.

6.   Laver did it all with a small wooden racket, worlds apart from the large, composition rackets which have changed the game so much.

7.   The old wooden Donnay racket has given way to an updated Head Prestige.

8.   They served underhand with flimsy wooden rackets, and probably tripped too often on their skirts.

9.   Barnes said changing back to wooden rackets had been ruled out.