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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…
If you strip away the name on the throat, a pro-signature frame is just a spec sheet — and this tennis racquet review is about reading that spec sheet honestly before you spend $250 chasing an ATP…
Here is a claim that runs against most shoe marketing: for a baseline grinder playing three times a week, the most comfortable shoe is almost never the softest one. It is the most stable one.
Somewhere in the last decade, "tennis adds years to your life" hardened from a research finding into a piece of folk wisdom.
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…
Reviewer's note (first person, one observation): I keep a spreadsheet of manufacturer-listed stiffness ratings for every control frame that crosses this desk, and the entry that started this piece was…
There is a strange gap in how recreational players shop for racquets. Head size gets argued about endlessly. String pattern has its own forum wars. Stiffness ratings get quoted like scripture.
Every June, photos of tournament stringing sheets start circulating — pro player string tensions from grass-court warm-ups, clay swings, hard-court Masters events — and every June the same arguments…