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.
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.
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.
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…
The short version of this racquet comparison: the Wilson Blade 98 v9 is a construction refinement of a frame that already worked, and if you own a v8 in good condition with life left in the grommets…
You are standing in a shop, or more likely a browser tab, looking at the Wilson Clash 108 v2, and the question in your head is not the one the marketing page answers.
The first thing that caught our attention was not on the court — it was on the spec sheet. Reading through this tennis racquet review candidate, we noticed the head shape, beam, and stringbed geometry…
Pick up any spec sheet for a "control" racquet aimed at improving players and one number keeps showing up in the 62 to 66 range: the RA, or frame stiffness rating.
The most useful thing we can tell a Clash 100 Pro v1 owner is this: the v2 is the tighter, more controlled frame, and most of you should keep the racquet you already own.