Every string and racquet we've put through the testing cycle, newest first. Scored against a long-running reference set, with the testing protocol shown on each page.
Every spin-obsessed baseliner has heard the pitch by now: the Yonex VCORE 98 is "the spin racquet," a frame whose isometric head, Aero Fin grommets, and slippery cross-section will add revolutions to…
The Yonex VCORE 98 sits in the crowded, expensive middle of the modern player's-racquet market: a 98-square-inch, 305-gram frame that Yonex pitches as its spin weapon, priced in the $250–270 range…
Ask around any stringing room or gear forum and you'll hear the same warning, usually delivered with a knowing smile: the pro player racquet setup you see on TV has almost nothing to do with the frame…
The number that reframed how we think about stringing for flat hitters is this: in Tennis Warehouse University's bench testing, published by physicist Crawford Lindsey, typical polyester tennis…
Reviewer note (first person, one case): A few years ago I bought the retail version of a frame my favorite baseliner supposedly used, took it to my local stringer, and asked him to match it to the…
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…
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…
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.
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…