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 is a reason coaches keep returning to the same small set of hand positions: the way you hold the handle sets the angle of the strings at the instant they meet the ball, and that angle decides…
There is a belief that runs through every poly-string thread on every tennis forum: that an aggressive baseliner who wants spin and control has to play a firm, shaped, low-power co-polyester, and has…
If your hand slides on a serve in July, the cheapest thing you can change is not your racquet, your strings, or your technique — it is the eight-or-so grams of textured tape wrapped around the handle.…
You are reading a racquet spec sheet, comfortable with the head size and the strung weight, and then you hit "16×19" sitting there with no explanation.
If you want a racquet in pink, you are not choosing between style and substance — you are choosing a finish that sits on top of whatever frame the manufacturer poured it onto.
Andre Agassi knotting a rubber band through his string bed is the origin story every budget-minded player eventually hears, and it raises a fair question: are rubber bands a legitimate alternative to…
A polyester string we pulled off the rack last month carried a printed "stability" score of 8.9 out of 10 on its packaging.
The static weight printed on a racquet's throat — 300 grams, 305, 11.2 ounces — is the least useful number for predicting how the thing will feel in your hand.
Good tennis string maintenance is not a date on a calendar — it is a function of how many hours you play, what string is in the racquet, and how attuned you are to the moment your control quietly…
On a 41°F morning, with a ball machine feeding flat balls at roughly 50 mph and a courtside radar logging outgoing RPM, we hit forty topspin forehands with the Babolat Pure Aero 2023 strung with…
The advice you hear in every pro shop runs like this: beginners need power, advanced players want control, and spin is something you buy with an open string pattern.
You buy a fresh can, crack the seal, and the hiss is part of the ritual. Then a teammate hands you a bucket of pressureless balls that have been rolling around the trunk since spring, and they feel…