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Most recreational players have asked some version of this question after a club match: the flat serve down the T that froze the returner on Saturday looked, on video, almost identical to the one that…
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…
Here is the claim we are going to spend the rest of this article earning the right to make: the semi-western forehand grip is not, primarily, a topspin grip. It is a contact-height grip.
There is a question intermediate players ask their coaches, then ask again on Reddit, then ask a third time when they're stringing a new frame: should I still bother learning the Eastern forehand, or…
There is a sentence that gets repeated in clinics, lesson bays, and the comment sections under every forehand video on the internet: "switch to a semi-western forehand grip and you'll finally get…
Most intermediate players we coach have, at some point, drifted into a grip that is neither one thing nor the other — somewhere between an eastern and a semi-western, set by accident rather than…
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…
For most of the twentieth century, the assumption inside American tennis was straightforward: if you wanted to get better, you paid a pro.
One frame, one scale, one surprise The first thing we did with a brand-new Wilson Pro Staff RF97 v13 was put it on a jeweler's scale, unstrung, no overgrip, no dampener.
There is a number printed on the throat of the Wilson Pro Staff RF97 v13, repeated in every catalog, every spec table, every YouTube thumbnail: 340 grams. Unstrung.