Safety tennis racquet

A tennis racquet comprising a frame having an outer end and an inner end, said frame having a string opening therethrough adjacent its outer end, strings comprising main string means comprising a plurality of single main string means defined as mains and cross string means comprising a plurality of single cross string means defined as crosses, a plurality of mains extending from the inner to the outer end of said opening and disposed alongside each other, a plurality of crosses disposed alongside each other and spaced with respect to each other and extending transversely of said mains, a plurality of ball grips, each ball grip having an opening therethrough receiving a respective one of said mains, means retaining each of said grips in a position along its main, a substantial number of said mains and crosses being free of interweaving whereby said strings yield more easily than the strings of a completely interwoven string racquet whereby the ball stays longer in contact with said strings for providing more control and whereby the jolt of the racquet striking the ball hard is lesser for reducing the corresponding jolt on the arm of the player, said strings being attached to said frame and extending across said opening, said outer end of said frame having two substantially planar oppositely facing sides, said mains in total and crosses in total each normally defining configurations having substantially planar outer surfaces parallel to said planar sides of said frame, said mains being in two groups, one of said groups of mains being on one side of said crosses and the other of said groups of mains being on the other side of said crosses, both of said groups of mains having said ball grips thereon whereby the benefit of said grips is available for striking a ball adjacent each of said groups of mains, said two groups of mains being out of contact with each other at all times, those of said grips which are disposed on one of said groups of mains being free of any connection to those of said grips which are disposed on the other of said groups of mains except such connection as is indirect through said strings, said ball grips being spaced ball gripping tubes disposed alongside each other, each tube having an elongated opening receiving a respective main, stiff connecting means interconnecting said tubes for defining a spinner whereby the tubes of a spinner move together as a unit, said connecting means extending transversely to the elongation of said tube openings, said interconnecting means being substantially smaller in a direction lengthwise of said tube openings than is the average length of said tubes along said openings, said interconnection means having portions between adjacent tubes each of which defines an interconnecting element, said interconnecting elements being in alignment, said elongated tube openings being substantially lying in a plane, said spinner having spaced projecting portions spaced apart along a line at a right angle to said tube openings and projecting outwardly from the plane of said tube openings farther than portions disposed between said tubes, said crosses being thicker than said mains and extending across the center area of said frame opening.