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.
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 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…
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.
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.
If you have played with multifilament long enough to trust it, you already know its ceiling: the comfort you love starts to feel like a lack of control on your biggest swings.
You have two racquets in front of you. On paper they are nearly twins: both 98 square inches, both around 11 ounces strung, both 16x19 patterns, both listed with a mid-60s stiffness figure.
A coach we trade notes with sent over a photo last month: a stringbed of Luxilon ALU Power, 16L, strung at 52 pounds, pulled out of the racquet after eleven days of doubles.
Wilson is better known for frames and strings than for the little rubber button that sits in the throat of your stringbed, but the Pro Feel is one of the more talked-about accessories in that category…