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.
A premium co-polyester string spool will tell you, somewhere on the packaging or the brand's site, that you are buying "tension stability" or "30% longer playability" or a "molecular structure…
When a commentator says a player holds an "Open Era record," they are quietly excluding roughly the first ninety years of competitive tennis history. The phrase is not decoration.
Multifilament tennis strings get recommended to intermediate players more than any other type, usually with three words attached: power, comfort, feel.
The number we kept coming back to is 0.42 millimeters. That is roughly how much one quality overgrip adds to the radius of a handle — which works out to about 1/16 inch of added circumference, or…
Buying a first racquet for a child is one of the few tennis purchases where the right answer is almost entirely measurable. Get the length right and most of the anxiety disappears.
The forehand grip that produces the most topspin is, for almost everyone we put on a ball machine, the wrong grip to learn.
Novak Djokovic plays with a small black-and-white button wedged between the bottom two main strings of his frame, and that single fact has sold more Head Pro Damp units than any spec sheet ever could.…
If you have watched tennis for years without ever holding a racquet, you have probably absorbed three beliefs about taking it up: that you are too old, that it costs too much, and that you lack the…
On the bench we have a flat-palmed right hand, a steel ruler, and a tape measure. The player is a 5'9" club-level baseliner who has bought three racquets online in four years and returned none of them…
We came to this tennis string review with one buyer in mind: the player who snaps a set in three or four sessions, wants the bite and precision of a co-poly, and is tired of being told the answer is…
Most tennis bag reviews compare bags the way catalogs do: list the claimed liter capacity, count the compartments, photograph the colorway, and move on.
You strung a fresh set of polyester, hit beautifully for a few sessions, and then somewhere around the two-week mark the racquet started feeling like a frying pan — stiff, lifeless, the ball flying…