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If you've stood in a pro shop staring at a wall of Babolat racquets wondering whether Pure Drive, Pure Aero, and Pure Strike are three genuinely different frames or three shades of the same…
Recreational players who track pro gear run into the same wall every time: the tennis racquets on tour are rarely the tennis racquets on the shelf.
The most useful number in junior tennis is not a swingweight or a stiffness rating. It is an inch — roughly how much length a child gains in racquet sizing every year or two between ages six and…
The most consequential decision in tennis apparel design over the past decade wasn't made by a designer.
There's no such thing as a women's tennis racquet in the engineering sense — no frame is molded differently for women — but there is a real question hiding inside the marketing category, and it's the…
There is a story every competitive player has heard, usually from a stringer, a coach, or a forum thread at midnight: each new generation of a racquet line is a genuine engineering step forward, and…
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…
Reviewer note (first person, one case): Before we wrote a word of this tennis racquet review, I did the one thing anyone can do without a court: I put the published spec sheet for the Blade 98 18x20…
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.