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 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…
Most tennis bag reviews compare bags the way catalogs do: list the claimed liter capacity, count the compartments, photograph the colorway, and move on.
There is one number we kept coming back to during this racquet bag review: 3.1°C. That was the difference between the inside of a so-called thermal-lined racquet bag and the inside of an unlined one…
There is a sentence we hear at the stringing bench at least once a week, usually from a 4.5 who has just bought a balance board off the internet: "head-light is for control, head-heavy is for power…
If you have been Googling at 11pm with a bag of frozen peas on your forearm, you already know the pitch: the wrong racquet is destroying your elbow, and the right one will save it.
You walk into the shop, or open the tab, and there are forty frames. Half of them promise more power, the other half more control, and a few promise both, which should be your first clue that the…
A search for tennis bags returns something close to four hundred results on a single major retailer, and roughly three of them are right for any given player.
If you have walked into a pro shop in the last decade and said the word "spin," you were handed something with an open string pattern, an aerodynamic beam, and a price tag that assumed you believed…
If you are standing in a shop deciding whether to spend more on the "advanced" racquet because you intend to get good, the honest answer is that the advanced frame will probably make you play worse…