What ATP and WTA players actually use — racquet model, string, tension, customisations — decoded and updated as the tour changes.
The number we keep coming back to is 95 — as in 95 square inches, the head size on the Yonex VCORE 95 that Felix Auger-Aliassime plays.
Navarro plays a spin-marketed frame as a flat, early-ball baseliner — and that's the puzzle worth unpacking.
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.
The myth we keep hearing in pro shops is that Coco Gauff plays "the Head Boom Pro you can buy off the wall." She doesn't, not really — and the gap between her stick and the retail Boom is where most…
The racquet Carlos Alcaraz actually plays with isn't the one in the Babolat shop window. It's a Pure Aero VS pro-stock — a tighter, denser-feeling cousin of the retail Pure Aero — wearing a paint job…
A couple of weeks ago we picked a Yonex Ezone 98 off a demo rack at a club shop, put it on the scale unstrung, and got 305 grams on the nose.
If you watch Bencic redirect a 130 km/h serve down the line off a half-step, the question that surfaces — the one club players keep asking us — is whether the racquet she's holding is doing anything…
The number to start with is 18 by 20 — that's the string pattern on Sabalenka's Wilson Blade 98 v9, and it's probably the single spec doing the most work in her game.
The common advice, when a 20-year-old starts hitting the ball through the back fence on tour, is simple: find out what he's playing and buy it.
Kalinskaya is one of the few players near the top of the WTA swinging a Yonex VCORE 98 rather than the EZONE 98 that dominates the brand's tour bag — and that single choice tells you most of what you…
The Head Gravity Pro paint job on Rublev's frame is, by most stringer accounts, hiding a pro-stock mold he's used for years — not the racquet hanging in your local shop with the same cosmetic.
The fastest mover on tour does not play a light, spin-bias frame — he plays a control stick strung tight with a full bed of polyester, and the reason is the part of his game people stop watching after…