The headline thing about Daniil Medvedev's racquet is that the Tecnifibre Tfight 305 on the shelf is not, in any meaningful sense, the Tfight he's actually playing with.
The myth we keep hearing in pro shops is that Coco Gauff plays "the Head Boom Pro you can buy off the wall." She doesn't, not really — and the gap between her stick and the retail Boom is where most…
The Head Gravity Pro paint job on Rublev's frame is, by most stringer accounts, hiding a pro-stock mold he's used for years — not the racquet hanging in your local shop with the same cosmetic.
The fastest mover on tour does not play a light, spin-bias frame — he plays a control stick strung tight with a full bed of polyester, and the reason is the part of his game people stop watching after…
The first tennis drills for beginners should not involve hitting a tennis ball with the strings. That is the claim, and we mean it literally: for the first thirty to forty-five minutes a new player…
The first point of a tennis game is called 15. Not one. Not first. Fifteen. A player who has won exactly one point in the current game has a score of 15, and if you have never watched tennis before…
A club player we know spent two weeks deciding between a Babolat Pure Aero 98 and a Wilson Blade 98 v9.
Here is a claim a lot of well-meaning parents have heard, sometimes from a club pro, sometimes from a YouTube video: teach the Eastern forehand grip and the full swing first, and the rest follows.