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Dude:
Here's the cure for your elbow and it will help your ground strokes. Also, it will help your serve and you'll volley like a maniac too. I read about this in tennis magazine several years ago and decided to try it. It really helped my elbow and made me a much better volleyer.

(1) Get your racquet restrung about 2 Lbs. HIGHER than the top recommended tension

(2) Buy a small roll of lead tape at the tennis shop (don't get the precut pieces, they are too heavy). Get the kind that is about 1/4" wide. Cut off 11 pieces, each about 1/2" long

(3) Starting at the 3:00 and 9:00 position on the racquet head, stick 1 piece of lead tape on the INSIDE of the racquet head between the holes where the strings come through. Work your way toward the top of the racquet, placing a piece of lead tape between each consecutive string hole until you have 4 pieces of lead tape on each side of the racquet at the 3:00 and 9:00 positions and above, so the lead will be between 2:00 to 3:00 and 9:00 to 10:00.

(4) You should have 3 pieces of lead tape remaining. Place one piece inside of the frame between the string holes at 12:00 and the other 2 pieces between the next 2 string holes to the left and right adjacent to the 12:00 position on the inside of the frame. This positioning of the lead tape gives the racquet a good balance.

For this to work correctly you have to get the racquet strung tighter AND add the lead. You have to do both or it will not help you. If you only do the lead, your racquet will be too powerful and hard to control. If you only raise the string tension, your racquet will be easier to control but it will hurt your elbow more.

This is how it works. The extra tension reduces the trampoline effect of the racquet strings so that the ball does not sink as deeply into the string bed. This improves control. The lead makes the racquet heavier, which transfers the shock from the ball strike back to the ball. So the ball compresses more and the strings compress less. Your arm does not have to absorb and react as much to the ball strike because the weight on the racquet does it for you. The combined effect is more power AND more control. This is also the reason your volleys will improve, you can just block the ball on your volleys instead of swinging because the racquet does the work. You will be surprised at how much of a difference these little pieces of lead make in the way your racquet feels and plays. You can add or remove pieces of lead to fine tune the racquet's feel and balance. I actually have 5 pieces of lead on each side of my racquet frame but Mz. Biz likes 4 on her racquet. Also, if you don't like the modifications, you can always undo it. It is a lot cheaper than buying a new racquet. BTW, what make & model racquet do you have?