The headline thing about Daniil Medvedev's racquet is that the Tecnifibre Tfight 305 on the shelf is not, in any meaningful sense, the Tfight he's actually playing with.
That's the entire piece in one sentence, but it's worth unpacking, because the gap between paint job and pro-stock is the gap between "I bought what Medvedev uses" and "I bought a frame that shares a sticker with what Medvedev uses." For a 6'6" baseliner who hits the flattest forehand in the top ten, the difference matters.
The setup, at a glance
- Frame: Tecnifibre Tfight 305 ISO (current paint job; underlying mould is an older, longer Tecnifibre pro-stock layup)
- String — mains: Tecnifibre Razor Code, 1.25 mm (full bed)
- String — crosses: Tecnifibre Razor Code, 1.25 mm (full bed)
- Tension: reportedly in the low-to-mid 40s lbs range (≈ 20–21 kg); exact match-day numbers not publicly confirmed
- Customisations: lead at 3 and 9, custom grip pallet, leather grip, slightly extended length over retail spec
- Last verified: May 2026
We'll spend the rest of the piece on what those bullets actually mean — and, more usefully, where the confident-sounding numbers stop and the educated guesses start.
What most people do
The default move, when a club player decides they like Medvedev's game, is to walk into a shop and pick up the retail Tfight 305 ISO. It's a perfectly reasonable racquet — 305 g unstrung, 16x19 pattern, more head-light than the average modern player frame, and Tecnifibre has done a serious job making the consumer version feel like a player's stick rather than a tweener.
Then they ask the stringer for "whatever Medvedev uses," get told it's Razor Code, and ask for it in a full bed at, say, 23 kg because that's a sensible mid-tension on the machine. The result is a frame that plays nicely, holds tension, and bears about the same relationship to Medvedev's actual setup that a karaoke recording bears to the studio master.
There's nothing wrong with this. It's just not what we'd call "Medvedev's setup." It's the retail interpretation of it.
What the evidence suggests
Here's where we have to be careful about what's confirmed versus what's circulating.
Confirmed by photos and stringer pickups: the frame in his bag wears Tfight 305 paint, but the mould underneath is not the current 305 ISO. The widely accepted reading — supported by years of bag photos and the fact that Tecnifibre quietly retains a small pro-stock program — is that Medvedev plays an older Tecnifibre layup, very likely related to the original Tfight 315 / 320 family, in something close to a 27.5-inch length. That's marginally longer than retail, which matters: leverage on a flat ball goes up quickly with a half-inch of extra length.
Confirmed by string: it's a Razor Code full bed, in 1.25 mm. Tecnifibre's co-poly, mid-stiffness, holds tension better than most of the slick black polys but with enough bite to grab a flat-hit ball and keep it in. No hybrid, no gut, no second string in the crosses. That's relatively unfashionable on tour, where natural gut mains or gut crosses are everywhere; Medvedev sits on the more austere end of the spectrum.
Reported but not bulletproof: tension. The numbers you'll see attributed to him sit in the low-to-mid 40s lbs (around 20–21 kg), which is low by club standards but normal for a tour player using a soft poly and wanting depth. Whether that drifts on clay (where most players go up a kilo or two to take pace off the ball and add control on a slower surface) is not publicly confirmed for Medvedev specifically. We'd guess slightly, but we don't know.
Inference, not fact: the exact customisation map. Lead at 3 and 9 is the common guess based on how the frame swings and how flat his contact looks on broadcast — it widens the sweetspot laterally without adding swingweight in the hoop. A leather grip and a custom pallet shape (likely a TK82-ish profile rather than the current retail Tecnifibre pallet) are the standard pro-stock fingerprints, and bag photos are consistent with that. But we haven't seen a published stencil of his exact balance and swingweight, so anyone quoting you 335 SW to two decimal places is guessing.
What he actually does
Strip the paint and the picture is fairly coherent. Medvedev plays an extended-length, modestly head-light pro-stock frame, with weight added at the sides, strung with a single soft-ish co-poly at a tension low enough to give him depth without requiring him to swing out of his shoes. He's a deep-court returner who steps in to redirect rather than to detonate. The setup serves that exactly: long lever, generous sweetspot across the string bed, string that won't go board-stiff in the second set.
Restring frequency is the bit we'd love to have a confirmed number on and don't. Most top-ten players are fresh frames every nine games or every set, depending on stringer and surface; we'd assume Medvedev is in that band, but the dataset doesn't give us a specific cadence and we won't make one up.
For a club reader, the honest takeaway is that the retail Tfight 305 ISO is a fine racquet that does not actually replicate his stick, and trying to chase his tension on a stiffer frame will mostly produce a launchy, low-control string bed. If you genuinely want to feel something like what he feels, the closer move is a longer, slightly heavier player's frame — extended-length options from any brand — strung with Razor Code 1.25 at whatever tension keeps the ball in your court, which for most club players is meaningfully higher than his.
Back to the paint
So: the Tfight 305 on the shelf is not the Tfight in his hand. After all of the above, that opening line reads less like trivia and more like the structural fact of his setup. The visible part — the cosmetic, the spec sheet, the model name — is the part Tecnifibre sells. The invisible part — older mould, extended length, custom pallet, lead at the right places, a full bed of Razor Code at a tension most amateurs would find unplayable — is the part he actually competes with. The gap between those two things isn't a marketing scandal; it's just what a pro setup is. Medvedev's is unusually clean about it. No hybrid to argue about, no exotic string in the crosses, no rotating stable of frames. One pro-stock, one string, one tension band, year after year. The paint job changes. Almost nothing underneath it does.