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COVER STORY Botch, tricks and rip-offs by tennis service companies. Anyone who entrusts the spring repairs to a specialist company rightly expects professional performance. However, if you end up with the wrong company, you will instead receive bad service, unskilled work and botched places. NEWS 1. Top through breadth - Karl-Georg Altenburg is the new President of the Deutscher Tennis Bundes 2. Farewell TeXX, welcome performance classes - The new binding point and rating system in the DTB 3. 24...

COVER TOPIC Tennis & School. The cooperation with a school can be seen as one of THE possibilities to discover talents and bring new youngsters into the club. Many opportunities for implementation and support pave the way for tennis clubs to go to school - and for students to join the club. NEWS 1. After a successful premiere, the future lies in Berlin - Review of the 25th DTB/VDT Federal Congress 2. When moaning is very (dis)nervating - grunting in...

COVER STORY The tennis surface from Sportas promises outdoor courts that can be played all year round and indoor conditions like a classic clay court. In the meantime, the tennis surface has been installed in 14 European countries as well as in China and Australia. Sportas has developed Tennis Force. RETURNAL asked what makes this new rubber so special and spoke to clubs that have decided on the product. NEWS 1. Women's power in Styria - At the general meeting...

COVER STORY The flood disaster in June 2013 caused devastating damage, especially in northern, southern and eastern Germany. Water levels in the Saale of up to 8.10 meters or even almost 13 meters in the Danube caused masses of water to overflow their banks and caused extensive damage to property and extensive evacuations from parts of the city. In addition to private households and business owners, a large number of tennis clubs in Germany were also existentially affected by the...