The journal Volume 2026

Every examination we've published.

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Yonex ·5 min · May 2026

Emma Navarro's Racquet and String Setup, Decoded

Navarro plays a spin-marketed frame as a flat, early-ball baseliner — and that's the puzzle worth unpacking.

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Racquets ·4 min · May 2026

Daniil Medvedev's racquet and string setup, decoded

The headline thing about Daniil Medvedev's racquet is that the Tecnifibre Tfight 305 on the shelf is not, in any meaningful sense, the Tfight he's actually playing with.

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Pro Setups ·5 min · May 2026

Coco Gauff's Racquet and String Setup, Decoded

The myth we keep hearing in pro shops is that Coco Gauff plays "the Head Boom Pro you can buy off the wall." She doesn't, not really — and the gap between her stick and the retail Boom is where most…

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Babolat ·5 min · May 2026

Carlos Alcaraz's racquet and string setup, decoded

The racquet Carlos Alcaraz actually plays with isn't the one in the Babolat shop window. It's a Pure Aero VS pro-stock — a tighter, denser-feeling cousin of the retail Pure Aero — wearing a paint job…

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Pro Setups ·5 min · May 2026

Ben Shelton's Racquet and String Setup, Decoded

A couple of weeks ago we picked a Yonex Ezone 98 off a demo rack at a club shop, put it on the scale unstrung, and got 305 grams on the nose.

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Yonex ·5 min · May 2026

What's actually in Belinda Bencic's racquet bag? Decoding a deceptively plain setup

If you watch Bencic redirect a 130 km/h serve down the line off a half-step, the question that surfaces — the one club players keep asking us — is whether the racquet she's holding is doing anything…

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Strings ·5 min · May 2026

Aryna Sabalenka's racquet and string setup, decoded

The number to start with is 18 by 20 — that's the string pattern on Sabalenka's Wilson Blade 98 v9, and it's probably the single spec doing the most work in her game.

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Babolat ·5 min · May 2026

Arthur Fils's racquet and string setup, decoded

The common advice, when a 20-year-old starts hitting the ball through the back fence on tour, is simple: find out what he's playing and buy it.

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Kalinskaya ·5 min · May 2026

Anna Kalinskaya's racquet and string setup, decoded

Kalinskaya is one of the few players near the top of the WTA swinging a Yonex VCORE 98 rather than the EZONE 98 that dominates the brand's tour bag — and that single choice tells you most of what you…

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Rublev ·5 min · May 2026

Andrey Rublev's racquet and string setup, decoded

The Head Gravity Pro paint job on Rublev's frame is, by most stringer accounts, hiding a pro-stock mold he's used for years — not the racquet hanging in your local shop with the same cosmetic.