Were you able to go to the ITF's 1st International Congress on Tennis Science and Technology in London? Didn't make it? Well we conducted a web chat from the conference with some of the world's top tennis science researchers. We discussed subjects like the new bigger ball and the latest in coaching science.

Among the tennis science experts who participated in the chat were:

• Professor Howard Brody, University of Pennsylvania, USTA sport science and ITF committee member and author of "Tennis Science for Tennis Players"
• Dr. Rabi Mehta, NASA wind tunnel specialist and sports ball aerodynamicist
• Dr. William Aronson, USTA Administrator of Sport Science
• Dr. Paul Lubbers, USTA Administrator of Coaching Education
• Dr. Duane Knudson, professor California State University, Chico, biomechanist and USTA sport science committee
• Dr. Steve Haake, professor University of Sheffield, consultant to the ITF, Sports Science, Engineering and Technology Network
• Dr. Alison Cooke, professor, Cambridge University, Sports Engineering
• Mr. Po-Jen Cheng, Wilson Sporting Goods
• Dr. Andy Lutz, Tennis Sport Science team member and tennis coach

On February 29, 2000 we had a web chat between students and our Principal Investigator, Dr. Jani Macari Pallis and Dr. Rabi Mehta, the team's wind tunnel specialist from NASA Ames, Dr. Duane Knudson , from the USTA Sport Science Committee and Dr. William Aronson, the USTA's new Administrator of Sport Science.