A forum post is what sent us back to the spec sheets. An owner, self-rated 3.5, described the Yonex Percept 97D as "dead" — no free depth, balls dumping into the net on defensive slices, a serve that…
Pull up the stat sheet from almost any professional match and one line will jump out before the aces or the break points: the unforced error count.
Walk into any pharmacy or sporting-goods aisle with a sore elbow and you will find two products sitting inches apart, both promising relief, both aimed at the same problem, and both built on entirely…
New in every catalog for about forty years now, "100% graphite" sits on racquet hangtags like a seal of quality.
Wilson lists the tension-loss figure for natural gut at under 5 percent over the life of a string bed — and that single number is the quiet argument at the heart of Champion's Choice, the hybrid…
If your strings keep snapping at the same spot in the middle of the string bed, you are paying for friction.
There is a version of the smart-shopper argument that goes like this: a tennis bag holds racquets, so a $200 tennis backpack is a $90 bag with a logo tax stapled on.
Most of the marketing around thermal compartments wants you to believe your bag is a refrigerator. It isn't.
There's a tidy belief that floats around club courts and group chats: a tiebreak is a tiebreak, first to seven points, win by two, no matter where you play it.