The honest version of Qinwen Zheng's setup is that most of what gets repeated about it traces back to one retailer bundle and a handful of bag-shot screengrabs — and the racquet inside the paint job…
Leylah Fernandez plays a Yonex VCORE 100 — the 300-gram, 100-square-inch spin frame — not the VCORE 98 that most of her tour-level peers reach for.
The number we keep coming back to is 95 — as in 95 square inches, the head size on the Yonex VCORE 95 that Felix Auger-Aliassime plays.
The racquet Carlos Alcaraz actually plays with isn't the one in the Babolat shop window. It's a Pure Aero VS pro-stock — a tighter, denser-feeling cousin of the retail Pure Aero — wearing a paint job…
A couple of weeks ago we picked a Yonex Ezone 98 off a demo rack at a club shop, put it on the scale unstrung, and got 305 grams on the nose.
If you watch Bencic redirect a 130 km/h serve down the line off a half-step, the question that surfaces — the one club players keep asking us — is whether the racquet she's holding is doing anything…
The common advice, when a 20-year-old starts hitting the ball through the back fence on tour, is simple: find out what he's playing and buy it.
Kalinskaya is one of the few players near the top of the WTA swinging a Yonex VCORE 98 rather than the EZONE 98 that dominates the brand's tour bag — and that single choice tells you most of what you…
A father sat next to me at a 12-and-under tournament last spring, leaned over, and asked what "thirty-fifteen" meant. His daughter was serving. The scoreboard had just flipped.