Frame-by-frame tests with the same strings, same tensions, and the same hands. Specs verified on a swingweight machine, not copied from manufacturer cards.
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…
If you strip away the name on the throat, a pro-signature frame is just a spec sheet — and this tennis racquet review is about reading that spec sheet honestly before you spend $250 chasing an ATP…
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…