Mirra Andreeva's racquet and string setup, decoded

Andreeva plays a Head Speed — the frame most viewers file under "Sinner, flat, first-strike" — and then strings it with Solinco Hyper-G, the gritty co-poly that club players reach for when they want to hit through the ball with topspin. That combination is the whole story, and it's worth slowing down on.

The setup, at a glance

Source: 's published "pro player gear bundle" for Andreeva, which lists the Head Speed frame paired with Solinco Hyper-G string. Everything beyond those two anchors — exact mold, static weight, swingweight, balance, tension per surface — is either inference or simply not on the public record.

The frame

The Head Speed line is one of the busiest paint jobs on tour. Sinner plays it. Berrettini plays it. Andreeva plays it. They almost certainly do not play the same racquet. The Speed family is a layout — 100 sq in, 16x19 string pattern, a slightly stiffer, faster-through-the-air profile than the Pro Staff or Pure Drive equivalents — and inside that family Head builds pro-stock molds (the TGT and PT series) that get finished in retail paint for the players they sponsor. We'd guess Andreeva's on-court stick is closer to a Speed MP layup than a Speed Pro: the Pro is an 18x20, 310 g, control-first frame, and her swing pattern — long, heavy, deeply rotational — reads more naturally with a 16x19 and a touch less mass in the head.

That's inference, though, and we want to flag it as such. What's confirmed is the paint and the brand contract. What isn't confirmed is the static weight, the balance point, the swingweight, or whether there's lead tape under the bumper guard. Tour Speeds are routinely customised up into the 330–340 g strung range with silicone in the handle and lead at 3 and 9; whether Andreeva's frame sits there or somewhere lighter is the kind of detail that usually only leaks through a stringer interview or a clear bag-cam shot.

The takeaway for a club reader: the retail Head Speed MP you can buy is a closely related cousin of what she plays, not the same racquet. Same mold family, almost certainly different build.

The string

Solinco Hyper-G is the part of the setup that's most legible to a recreational player, because it's the part you can actually replicate. Hyper-G is a shaped, soft-for-a-poly co-polyester — a green, six-sided string that has spent most of the last decade as one of the default recommendations for juniors and college players who want spin without the harshness of a Luxilon ALU Power or the crispness of an RPM Blast.

Per the published bundle, Andreeva plays it in a full bed rather than a hybrid. That's worth pausing on. A lot of the WTA top 20 plays hybrid setups — natural gut mains with a poly cross, or a smooth poly main with a shaped poly cross — to soften the string bed and add pocketing. A full bed of Hyper-G is a more uncomplicated choice: maximum bite, maximum predictability, no second variable to manage as the gut moves or the cross saws into the main. Gauge isn't publicly confirmed, but Hyper-G's most common pro-level gauges are 1.20 and 1.25 mm; we'd lean toward 1.25 for a player whose game is built on heavy, repeatable topspin rather than maximum bite on a thinner string.

Tension is the other gap. We don't have a verified pickup number, on hard or on clay. Hyper-G is typically strung in the 22–24 kg / 48–53 lb range on tour, lower than ALU Power because the string itself is softer and benefits from a stiffer string bed to keep control. Whether Andreeva drops tension on clay the way Sinner reportedly does is, again, not publicly known.

How it matches the game: Andreeva isn't a first-strike player. She redirects, she changes height and depth, she runs opponents through long rallies and then takes the ball early on the line when they're stretched. That game needs a string bed that grabs the ball reliably — every shot, not just the clean ones — and gives her a known launch angle. Full-bed Hyper-G does that. A gut hybrid would give her more free power and a softer pocket, but it would also move around more and reward a more aggressive, shorter-rally style than she's built.

What this tells you

The setup is quietly coherent. The frame is from the line associated with flat power, but the string is from the family associated with grinding topspin, and the customisation work that almost certainly sits inside the paint is doing the job of reconciling the two — pulling the swingweight up to where her long, heavy stroke can load the string bed, keeping the head stable on her open-stance forehand, and letting Hyper-G's bite do the rest.

If you read the frame alone you'd guess one kind of player. If you read the string alone you'd guess another. Together they describe what we actually see: a baseliner who plays patient tennis with a stick that punches above its retail spec.

Would we recommend the setup to a club reader who admires her? Carefully. The retail Head Speed MP plus a full bed of Hyper-G at 23 kg is a perfectly serviceable club setup, particularly for a 4.0–4.5 player with a long, topspin-heavy forehand. It will feel stiffer than her actual rig, because you won't have the lead tape and silicone that bring a pro-stock to life, and Hyper-G will go dead faster on you than it does on her, because she's restringing far more often than once a month. But it isn't a famously unsuitable copy job in the way a Pure Aero VS or a Wilson Six.One 95 would be. The mold is friendly. The string is forgiving by poly standards.

What this piece didn't answer

Three numbers we'd want before calling the picture complete: the exact static weight and swingweight of her on-court frame (the difference between a retail Speed MP and a customised TGT mold lives in those two figures), the stringing tension she's actually picked up at on a Grand Slam — ideally one hard-court and one clay reading — and the restring cadence per match. Those usually surface through three channels: bag-cam pickups during changeovers, Stringers Association interviews after Slams, and the occasional Head Player Tour video where someone holds up a frame and the stencil is legible. We'll update this piece when any of the three lands.