The number that matters is 300 grams. That is the unstrung weight Babolat lists for the standard Pure Drive Gen 11, and it is the exact same figure the company publishes for the Wimbledon edition of…
The common advice goes like this: if you're a serious intermediate or advanced player and your Blade is more than two generations old, upgrade — the new one is always meaningfully better.
Somewhere between the first racquet a shop hands a beginner and the frame an advanced player commits to for years, there is a purchase that goes wrong more often than any other: the second racquet.
If you play with a Blade and you've spent the past year wondering whether your next frame should chase more spin, you have probably asked yourself a very specific question: does Wilson's new Python…
Nobody doubts that a treadmill counts as exercise. The doubt lives elsewhere: can a sport people play for laughs on Sunday mornings deliver the kind of conditioning that running programs and gym…
Every serious player has heard the mythology: the Pro Staff won Grand Slams in the hands of Sampras and Federer, and its modern descendant, the 97, supposedly carries that DNA forward.
There is a piece of received wisdom that circulates in stringing rooms and forum threads alike: if an overgrip wraps on smoothly — good stretch, forgiving backing, no puckering at the bevels — that…
There are, by the USRSA's own accounting, only a few thousand people who hold the Master Racquet Technician certification worldwide.
Fame and greatness are not the same thing in tennis, and if you're new to the sport, that gap is the first useful thing to understand.