Every two or three years a flagship spin frame arrives with a number attached. A new groove pattern, a reshaped beam, a softer layup, and somewhere in the launch deck a figure that suggests this…
There is a belief that shows up in nearly every forum thread about a new frame: that the latest generation, or the "plus" or "tour" variant sitting next to the standard model on the wall, is a…
The advice gets repeated in every corner of the internet where rackets are discussed: you do not need to pay for coaching.
Babolat's Custom Damp ships with Rafael Nadal's name attached and a small bag of rubber inserts, which is exactly the kind of pairing that makes us suspicious.
You are standing in a pro shop or hovering over a checkout page with a shoe that costs as much as eight sets of strings, and a question you have probably asked yourself before: how do I know the…
The first thing we did with each shoe was the same: a 4.5-meter shuttle run on a worn green hard court, planting hard on the right foot at the line, then measuring two things — how far past the line…
A court shoe lives or dies in about 300 milliseconds — the time it takes a foot to land, load, roll, and push off again, several thousand times across a single match.
Last month, on a hardcourt in still air, we hit forty forehands with the same racquet, the same Luxilon ALU Power at 52 lb, and changed only one thing between blocks of ten: the dampener wedged…
The left side of a tennis court is called the "ad court," but the name has almost nothing to do with the side itself.