Sentences with phrase «rackets before»

Angell founder and mechanical engineer Paul Angell spent two decades designing big - brand tennis rackets before launching his own business to custom - make them.

I'd feel a little fraudulent, like someone wearing a cute tennis outfit who's never swung a racket before.

He looks as though he's never lifted a racket before in his life.

Not exact matches

But he said he had never picked up a racket and never watched tennis before meeting Williams.

Immediately before he left for Africa, Stan won a tournament in Phoenix, where a lot of the people donated old secondhand rackets for him to take along.

Even before the first little shop on Clay Avenue, Ron was stringing rackets in his garage and selling tennis shoes out of the trunk of his car.

Some players have even been known to sabotage an opponent's racket by pouring a soft drink on the strings just before a match.

NY1 political reporter Grace Rauh is in the courtroom today for the oral arguments in John Haggerty's trial, and reports Manhattan ADA Eric Seidel (Rackets Bureau chief) revealed Mayor Bloomberg testified before a grand jury in the case.

Scotto, of Port Washington, had worked for 20 years in Manhattan as an assistant district attorney, rising to chief of the rackets bureau, before opening a private practice in Garden City.

A White Plains federal jury deliberated for less than an hour and a half before finding the disgraced Queens Republican guilty on all five counts of bribery, wire fraud and racket eeri ing charges that he faced.

In tennis, for instance, no rule for the tennis racket existed before 1978 because wooden rackets had remained largely unchanged for over 100 years.

With only minutes to go before the start of the first session, the pets that came with the conference swag were making an awful racket.

Before that, there was like this little like butter smuggling racket where people are...

«With Borg and McEnroe, you had one guy who let his racket do the talking and the other guy with the mouth doing the talking,» the preternaturally tanned 86 - year - old Bollettieri tells Vanity Fair from the U.S. Open before heading to Toronto, where Borg / McEnroe will open the festival.

Watching Joely fire unreturnable serves, Coach Phillips ticks off the qualities in her star player's game: «She can do it all — forehand, backhand, and volley,» Phillips reports about the 13 - year - old whose family emigrated from Venezuela, and who had never even held a tennis racket until signing up for the program two years before.

ON THE ROAD — Top diesel is the pick of the crop From a cold start, the X1's diesel engines create a bit of a racket, before settling down on the move — but it's not especially sporty or refined in its character.

The stadium is under construction, so we sat on uncomfortable metal bleachers in the hot sun, and left before «bad boy» Nick became unruly, dropping an F - bomb, and smashing his racket while losing in four sets.

In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double - fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance.

Before he was twenty - five, he'd finished his degree, left the enforcer racket, and was a rising man of promise in Tessio's regime.

It's all a racket, and I have at least till mid 2016 before all the damn statute of limitations will have finally closed for these PFIC tax filings.

Rackets can take three hits from these zone shots before they break, forfeting you the game — you can't play without a racket after all.

When Waluigi is summoned, he proceeds to stomp an enemy for an insane amount of damage before wailing on them with his tennis racket.

You swing your arm physically to swing the bat or racket in - game, and you press a button before throwing the bowling ball down the lane.

We have written about Racket: Nx a couple of times before.

Never before has the famous quip — «Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket» — seemed more true than it does today of the behavior of NRDC, EDF, and the Sierra Club.

Last year I had silhouettes in it, before that clocks, I've had flowers and butterflies... and most recently I had beadboard with vintage badminton rackets.