Glad I found this tennis thread for olds, good stuff. What racquets/strings are considered easy on the elbow? I saw a couple of things mentioned but wasn't sure. Went out for the first time in 20 years, hit off and on for about 2 weeks and then had the same elbow issue that others mentioned. My sticks are a couple old 20+ yr old radicals(I think a Radical Trisys 260? and a Flexpoint). Both have 15+ yr old strings and strung tight as hell (growing up I think I would string them near ~ 60).
My game was fine, could still serve and hit forehand easily. I'm a righty but my left elbow had some pain bending back when trying to hit a 2 hand backhand so had to settle for the old man slice backhand. Didn't hurt afterwards though like my right elbow. I could barely swing with it (I got one of those tennis elbow tension bands that go on the upper forearm which seemed to help a bit). It hurt like shit trying to slice and/or hit a regular forehand after that. Took off about a month and seemed to go away but a little nervous to get back out there until I figure out or learn about current racquets/strings that could help alleviate/prevent old elbow. I've always played with oversized racquets but can play with mids as well if that's the type of racquets that get rec'd here.