For roughly two decades, buying a Barricade meant accepting a deal. You got a fortress around your foot — the kind of lateral stability that lets you load a wide forehand and trust the shoe not to…
There is a tidy idea that gets repeated on coaching blogs and in pub conversation: a tennis court is just a rectangle, 78 feet by 36, with a net down the middle.
The short version: a full western forehand grip produced roughly 12–18% more measured topspin than a semi-western in our hitting sessions, but cost the same testers about one in five low balls they…
The Wilson Pro Staff 97 v13 is the first iteration in three generations that we'd hand to a control player without an apology — the removal of Countervail restores the frame's signature feedback, but…
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.